Middle Quotes - Page 7

• Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks,
  you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

  Garry Trudeau

  Life Is Like, Bathroom, Get Up

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• The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

  Aristotle

  Class, Community, Political

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

  Anna Quindlen

  People, Meat, Sandwiches

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.239, Ballantine Books

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• Virtue lies in the middle ground.

  Jose Rizal

  Lying, Virtue, Middle Ground

  "'Los Viajes' ('Travels')". Essay by José Rizal, La Solidaridad, May 15, 1889.

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• Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Boys, Government

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 5, 2003.

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• If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.

  Kristin Davis

  Madison, Walking, Avenues

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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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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• In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

  Richard Eder

  Lying, Book, Silence

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• I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

  Marion Ross

  Faith, Home, Walking Away

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• Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Long, Needs, Middle Of Nowhere

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

  Maureen Forrester

  Class, Born, Montreal

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• Comfort came in with the middle classes.

  Clive Bell

  Class, Comfort, Middle Class

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• I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

  Gregory Peck

  New York, Names, Changed

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• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class, Two, Black

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• Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Women, Looks

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• White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

  Holly Near

  Journey, Men, Class

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• There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

  Sonny Rollins

  Creating Things, Long, Age

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• We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

  Henry Hampton

  Boston, Class, People

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• I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

  Star Jones

  Nice, Way, Crossroads

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• I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Funny, Dark

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• The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

  Julian Bond

  Atlanta, Class, Guy

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• A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Strong, Class, Digging

  "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

  William Feather

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

  Andre Gide

  Honor, Age, Literature

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• You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  Alexander Haig

  Frustration, Middle East, Looks

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