Class Quotes

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

I really wasn't a class clown.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

I was a class clown.

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

Class still matters in Britain today.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

Everyone has class, one class or another.

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

Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.