Top 1200 Middle-Class Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

I'm from a typical middle-class family and I grew up in a place without a theatre.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

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.

My sister Farah and me, we come from a very middle-class family.

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

I'm trying to make pop records for the middle-class, lower-middle-class - pop for the 99 percent.

Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

What is the deepest passion for me and for us is the historic investment in the middle class and in - as I say often because I was that guy growing up - the dreams of those who look up who want to get into the middle class. That I feel the strongest about.

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

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

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress.

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

I'm from a typical middle-class family in Delhi, with one of the most down-to-earth childhoods.

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

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

I came from a middle class family hence I had to struggle hard for success.

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class wages. But it might be easier to lower middle-class costs by building more housing.

Shipping middle-class jobs to China, or hollowing them out with machines, is a win for smart managers and their shareholders. We call the result higher productivity. But, looked at through the lens of middle-class jobs, it is a loss.

I belong to a middle class family from Bhopal. My father was fearless.

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house, and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives.

I think 'The Wood' was probably more concerned with the parts of Inglewood that aren't usually seen on film - the areas that were middle-class, or upper-middle-class - and that idea that these worlds do exist, and should be accepted as part of Inglewood itself.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

I have made films on humor of poverty because I have lived in a lower middle class family.

What hinders the middle class the most is taxes, and what hinders business from creating jobs and moving people into the middle class are regulations.

Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I grew up in a middle-class family in Jamaica, I had no self-worth issues whatsoever.