Back Quote by Robert Sternberg

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

— Orrin Hatch

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

— David Mamet

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

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

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Our political class obsesses over social mobility from one generation to the next - whether or not people are doing better than their parents…

— David Lammy

When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of a country.…

— Shirley M. Tilghman

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per…

— Abraham Lincoln

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

— Elena Ferrante

Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native…

— William J. Clinton

I'd rather see us as citizens than subjects in the 21st Century.

— Clive Lewis

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

— Wynton Marsalis