Middle class Quotes · Page 9

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

— Matthew Arnold

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

— Cecelia Ahern

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot…

— Louise Erdrich

We grew up no frills, is how I would say it. We were going to be fed, sheltered and educated.

— Robby Hoffman

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

— Nick Hanauer

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

— Gore Vidal

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

— Nick Hanauer

Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in…

— T. Harv Eker

The Corbynista brand of politics representing metropolitan, middle class, pro-open border values is far removed from millions of Labour voters, especially those…

— Nigel Farage

“The deepest cause which made the French Revolution so disastrous to liberty was its theory of equality. Liberty was the watchword of…

— Anonymous

When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and…

— Todd Haynes

Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…

— Russell Kirk

“Middle-class parents are more verbal generally, their vocabulary is richer and more expressive, and they are more supportive and less controlling in…

— Karl Alexander

In a time where the middle class is squeezed by stagnant incomes and rising health care costs, Ben Carson looks like he…

— Margaret Hoover

The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go…

— Glenn Reynolds

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and…

— Dorothy Allison

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,…

— Kathryn Edin

Tai chi is the one exercise that can universally help solve our growing health crisis. It has stood the test of thousands…

— Bruce Frantzis

“Some words that sound English actually have Italian roots. “Snob” may date back to Renaissance Florence, when the burgeoning middle class sought…

— Anonymous

There is a new face to hunger today. Many of the people who come to food pantries and soup kitchens are people…

— Vicki Escarra

Every single thing I've done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young…

— Barack Obama

“The Stoics taught a life of restraint and control, the personal cultivation of learning, beauty, and reason. The Stoics asked the Romans…

— Norman F. Cantor

Even though we were middle-class, my parents always got me what I wanted.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

— Jacki Weaver

In Portugal there is often no work; my father had to go to Switzerland to earn money to support our family.

— Joao Cancelo

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

— Anne Enright

“Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.”

— Allan Wolf

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

I come from a middle class family and I am not overambitious.

— Biju Menon

“I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.”

— Leila Aboulela

Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.

— Eric Garcetti

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

— Johnny Flynn

I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves.

— Charles Murray

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

— Rory Bremner

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

— Timothy Noah

I think we've created a middle class in rock & roll and we sort of just keep trudging along and having a ball.

— John Popper

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

— Mohamed ElBaradei