Middle-Class Quotes

111 quotes by 101 authors

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my… — Peter Ackroyd
You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am. — Joe Biden
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly… — Julian Bond
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were… — Julia Child
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. — Edmund White
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood… — Bharati Mukherjee
I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games. — Charlaine Harris
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because… — Betty Buckley
I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be… — Jimmy Carr
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. — Arianna Huffington
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime. — Arabella Weir
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean… — John le Carre
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America. — Steny Hoyer
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist.… — Louise Bogan
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide… — Bruce Sterling
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education, — Rory Bremner
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. — James S. Coleman
The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle… — Tim McGraw
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed. — Willie Stargell
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class… — Camille Paglia

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