Quotes with middle-class

Quotes 241 till 260 of 402.

  • A. Philip Randolph Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Cyril Connolly Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Robert H. Schuller Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Bella Freud Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Anne Dudley Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Margaret Thatcher Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bob Uecker 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
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bill Nye Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Abdallah II Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Brad Bird Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Caleb Deschanel The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • W. H. Auden The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alan Dundes The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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