Armed forces Quote by Christopher Hitchens

I was as middle class as it comes.

— Patrick Murphy

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum…

— E. O. Wilson

I grew up in the middle class.

— Anthony Scaramucci

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

— Martin Lewis Perl

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged…

— Denise Mina

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early…

— Simon Raven

My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army…

— W. G. Sebald

I grew up upper middle class.

— Lil Dicky

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he…

— Dave Van Ronk

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

— Badshah

My family was reasonably liberal. Some kids I grew up with, their parents forced them to join the military, and my parents never, ever…

— Mike Doughty

I grew up in a lower-middle-class environment, usually the lone minority among my classmates.

— Reggie Fils-Aime