Quotes with middle-class

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  • Brock Lesnar Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • John Ciardi 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
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Günter Grass Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Brett Ratner Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ''Why not?'' and the other, ''Why bother?''
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Don Marquis Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Eli Cass Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
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  • Ogden Nash Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bob Hope Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Bennett Cerf Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Bennett Cerf Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Daniel Defoe Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Gerald Brenan Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
    Gerald Brenan
    British writer and hispanist (1894 - 1987)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Somers White Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.
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  • Spike Milligan Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
    Spike Milligan
    British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor (1918 - 2002)
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  • Golda Meir Moses took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.
    New York Times 10-6-1973
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Brit Hume MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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