Quotes with upper-middle-class

Quotes 101 till 120 of 419.

  • Abraham Lincoln I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • David Copperfield I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Gore Vidal I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Noam Chomsky I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruno Mars I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bryan Cogman I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Adela Rogers St. Johns I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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  • Dean William R. Inge I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Adnan Pachachi I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • John Keats I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Anne Enright I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Adam Clayton I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Hawking I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Barack Obama I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
    Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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