Middle Quotes

• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Practice

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• On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

  Theodore Bikel

  Funny, Ends, Stage

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• The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Class, Issues

  "Tim McGraw: I'm 'a True Southern Populist Kind of Democrat'". www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2006.

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• It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Safety, Age, Valve

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.14, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

  Paul O'Grady

  Games, Dresses, Shows

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• I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Theatre, Actors, Traffic

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• I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Easter, Peace, Believe

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• Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Retirement, Fun, Age

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• The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class, White, Population

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• You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  Andrew Denton

  Comedy, Comic, Hard

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

  Ken Follett

  War, Writing, World

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

  Eliot Engel

  Class, Important, Values

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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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• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Jack Kingston

  Military, College, Class

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• Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Class, Democrat

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• You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

  Wayne Rogers

  Eye, People, Meals

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• A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

  Patti LuPone

  Rocks, Kind, Wells

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• I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Class, Everyday, India

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• Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Golf, Age

  Nods and Becks (1944)

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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  Francis Bacon

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

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

  H. Rap Brown

  Class, Divides, Lower Class

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• Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

  Bennett Cerf

  Birthday, Age, Grey

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• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

  John Ciardi

  Love, Relationship, Romance

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