Quotes of: Upper-class Keyword

One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.

Michael Moore

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

Robert Webb

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

Esai Morales

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

Tom Hardy

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.

Craig Thompson

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

Timothy Noah

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Graham Norton

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Wynton Marsalis

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

Edmund White

What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

Dan Maffei

Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

Walter Huston

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

Christopher Eccleston

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

Israel Horovitz

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

Elia Kazan

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

Greg Kinnear

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

John F. Kerry

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

Eliot Engel

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

Yelawolf

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

Anita Brookner

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

William Makepeace Thackeray