My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.
If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.
I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn't have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies.
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.
Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.