A Quote by James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

James F. Cooper

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Crust Families Know Our Ten Thousand Upper

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James F. Cooper
American - Writer
September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

Gloria Estefan

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is this idea of 'north,' and if you're from Michigan and you wandered the Upper Peninsula, you know what it feels like. The sky has a particular vibe, a coldness, stretching into the upper reaches of Canada.

David Means

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

Nancy Kress

I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC.

Joe Lando

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

Noel Coward

If I can't do one thing, which is a lower body exercise, then I'm gonna use my upper body, and I'm gonna get stronger upper body. If I'm not getting stronger upper body, I'll be working on my cardiovascular - swimming or other exercises where I can get my heart rate up.

Colby Covington

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

Caleb Carr

I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

Apolo Ohno

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

Steve Mnuchin

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.

Arnold Palmer

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

Adrian McKinty

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

David Mitchell

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.