Middle Class Quotes - Page 18

• In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

  John Millington Synge

  Family, Son, Artist

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.235, Wordsworth Editions

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• I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

  Matt Damon

  Growing Up, Kids, Class

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

  James Ellroy

  Class, Circles, People

  James Ellroy (2012). “Conversations with James Ellroy”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

  Chris Martin

  Family, Class, Degrees

  "Celebrity squares?" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2003.

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• I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

  Chris Martin

  Successful, Thinking, Class

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• Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

  Annette Bening

  Who I Am, Class, Oklahoma

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• My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Mother, Father, Italian

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• My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

  Kid Cudi

  Growing Up, Home, Mean

  "Kid Cudi: 'I've always been ahead of the curve'" by Archna Sawjani, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

  Elliott Abrams

  Mother, Teacher, Queens

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• In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

  Nigel Cole

  Hard Work, Class, Long

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• Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Wall, Thinking, Class

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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

  Lincoln Chafee

  Country, Strong, Class

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• 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.

  Nick Clooney

  Class, Germany, Nazi

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• I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.8, Penguin

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• We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

  Arne Duncan

  Dream, School, College

  "Lower Student Loan Interest Rates" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Mean, Cutting, Class

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Country, Wall, Lying

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Class, Entrepreneur, Michigan

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• The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Real, Writing, Class

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

  Eliot Engel

  Class, Important, Middle

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• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  Larry Elder

  Children, School, Simple

  "'Gun Culture' - What About the 'Fatherless Culture'?" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 17, 2013.

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• I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

  Maureen Forrester

  Class, Born, Middle

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

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Struggle, Class, America

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• Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

  Darrell Issa

  Greatness, Class, Creating

  "Interview with Representative Darrell Issa". "The Situation Room" with Jim Acosta, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 28, 2012.

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• I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.

  Deborah Kass

  Party, Thinking, Years

  "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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