Quotes with upper-middle-class

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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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  • Bria Skonberg My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Brad Schneider My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.
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  • Aeschylus Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • W. H. Auden No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ronald Reagan No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barry Ritholtz No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Anne Tyler None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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