Class Quotes - Page 37

• We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

  Colleen McCullough

  Mean, People, Maids

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.22, Head of Zeus

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• Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

  Isabel Allende

  Teacher, Believe, Men

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• And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Daughter, Mean

  "Fictional characters: Mr. Tumnus, the Faun; Lucy Pevensie". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

  Libba Bray

  Tables, Needed, Invited

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Regret, Science, Reflection

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• She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Hands, Answers, Raises

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.193, Macmillan

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• I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.

  Tammara Webber

  Knowing, Campus, Made

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• I noticed you the first week. Not just because of how pretty you are, though of course, that played into it. It was the way you lean onto your elbows when you 're listening in class, when something catches your interest. And when you laugh, it's never to get attention, it's just-laughter. The way you obssevively tuck your hair behind your ear on the left side, but let the right side fall down like a screen. And when you 're bored, you tap your foot soundlessly and move your fingers on the desktop like you 're playing an instrument. I wanted to sketch you.

  Tammara Webber

  Laughter, Moving, Fall

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• The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Philosopher

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• The day I went into physics class it was death.

  Sylvia Plath

  Physics

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.20, Hamilton Books

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• Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing - which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.

  Tammara Webber

  Friday, Missing, Fifteen

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• You could ask me to teach you.” “Huh?” This night is getting weird in a hurry. “Teach me like you’re teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: ‘You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101’?” “It would be more like a graduate-level class.” I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who’s talking and bite it off.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Teaching, Night, Talking

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.118, Delacorte Press

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• The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

  Ahmed Toufiq

  Play, Nuclear, Roles

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• She's a skank. He's a player. He's cute but almost OD'd last year, so he's a bad bet. She's a two-faced, lying, cheating witch. That's right, Trina, I'm talking to you," she shouted. "By the way," she added just for me, "Trina cusses, which means cussing is trashy, which means my golden rule is to never cuss. I have class. Unlike Trina, the skank of Birmingham." The last part was, of course, shouted.

  Gena Showalter

  Cute, Cheating, Lying

  Gena Showalter (2013). “Alice in Zombieland”, p.52, Harlequin

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• The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Country, Son, Rights

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.56, Macmillan

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• It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Sneakers, Clothes

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2009). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

  Will Self

  Race, Age, Identity

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2007.

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• My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

  Matthew Quick

  Smooth Jazz, Relaxation, Sometimes

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

  Chris Colfer

  Homicide, One Thing

  Chris Colfer (2012). “Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Oneness, People

  "A Martin Luther King Treasury".

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• Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.

  Veronica Roth

  Smirk, Brilliant, Caleb

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• Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Proud, Social

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• But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Teacher, Mean, Adversity

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• "A date," Jace repeated. "Often a 'boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case,' 'an offer of a n evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly.'"

  Cassandra Clare

  White, Romance, Hot

  "City of Lost Souls". Book by Cassandra Clare, books.google.ru. 2015.

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