Middle-Class Quotes

111 quotes by 101 authors

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having… — Larry Elder
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be… — Jack Kingston
I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like,… — Billy Eichner
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western. — Charles Kimbrough
Middle-class families know education begins at birth. — Geoffrey Canada
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to… — Peter York
England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and… — Stephen Daldry
I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know. — Redd Foxx
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in… — Al Franken
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and… — Henry Louis Gates
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's… — Gail Collins
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I… — Beth Ditto
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. — Tom Hardy
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know? — Vanilla Ice
I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for… — Caroline Kennedy
I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life. — Shahrukh Khan
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith,… — Damian Lewis
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in… — Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very… — Denise Mina
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family… — Barack Obama

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