Middle Quotes - Page 3

• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

  Walter Kohn

  War, Views, Years

  Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class, White, Population

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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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• Life has no beginning, middle or end.

  Marguerite Young

  Ends

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• Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

  Charles Schumer

  Class, People, Democrat

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• I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

  Sting

  Hate, Rocks, Rock Music

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• But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

  Charles Schumer

  Party, Eye, Thinking

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• We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

  James Sinegal

  Strong, Class, Wages

  "Online Extra: At Costco, "Good Jobs and Good Wages"". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Rejection

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• When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hippie, Artist, Rights

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• In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

  Robert Runcie

  Travel, People, Age

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• Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Morning, Believe

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• Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Thinking, Knights

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• Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty

  Kathleen Blanco

  Religious, Cutting, Rich Or Poor

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• I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Floating, Flight

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• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

  Ben Stein

  Motivational, Stars, Dirty

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• It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Depression, Listening, Misery

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• There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Science, Men

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1963)

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• Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

  Charlie Sheen

  Dad, Father, Heart

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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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• 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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• I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Pygmalion, Class

  Pygmalion (1916) act 5

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• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Class

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

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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