Class Quotes

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

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.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'

We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.