Quotes of: Middle-class Keyword

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

Francesca Annis

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Javier Bardem

I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.

David Tepper

Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

Imtiaz Ali

With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.

Jeev Milkha Singh

The English-language press in India supports the project of corporate globalization fully. It has no time for dispossession and drought and farmers' debts, the ravages that the corporate globalization project is wreaking on the poor of India. So to s...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in our class, was run over by a New York City bound train right in the center of town. Our classmate left sch...

The Many Loves of Mila

There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton...

John Ridley

If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families a...

Mark Haddon

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.

Keith Ellison

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

Ed Westwick

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

Kirsten Gillibrand

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm

Hocus Pocus

Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life...

Une page d'amour

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate so...

Terry Eagleton

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 middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I tak...

Caroline Kennedy

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

Lincoln Chafee

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

Ruben Hinojosa

That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.

Sander Levin

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

Keith Ellison