Class Quotes

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

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

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

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.

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.