A Quote by Melvyn Bragg

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

Melvyn Bragg

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Class House House Of Lords Later Like Like Me Lords Lose Me Media Middle Middle Class Now People Were Working Working Class

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Melvyn Bragg
English - Journalist
Born: October 6, 1939

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

Joel Kinnaman

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

Denise Mina

Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

Timothy Spall

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

Sharon Maguire

There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.

Timothy Noah

The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

Glenn Reynolds

People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.

Sherrod Brown

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Sugar Ray Leonard

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

George Orwell

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Ed Miliband

In America, the middle class, the working class, have accepted for too long now, that they should accept less.

Jane O'Meara Sanders

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.