Top 1200 Second-Class Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.

In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say "congratulations.

For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.

That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have.....The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).

There's no class to manage people. There's no class to teach on how to handle millions. There's no class to teach us how to manage time.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

I was always ranked last in my class. My problem was that I would obtain a just pass and move on to the next class!

Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.

I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method to the madness. With Gym Class, it's more of a democratic process, and when I'm working on solo stuff, it's just me, either working with producers or sitting in a room by myself. They balance and complement each other.

Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.

Borderlands' asks you to pick a class, and once you've chosen that character class, you've committed yourself to that game session.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

Jay Wright is class personified. He wins with class, loses with dignity when he does, which is not often.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being alive, is a living thing. It's every breath you take. That was the last one. It'll never come back. You are riding on this wave of awareness, second to second to second.

I feel like so much of mainstream feminism springs from the second wave, which was essentially a discourse spearheaded by white, cisgender, upper middle class women. I feel - especially as I'm trying to negotiate this new female space with the feminism that's available to me - there are a lot of places where I'm disenfranchised.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices are treated as second class forms of speech and singled out for discrimination.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a person, to say, 'He is not like us. He is used to hard work in the sun. He can handle being whipped because he doesn't feel any pain. He doesn't need to be educated.'

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

When I was in Class VII, a boy from Class VI came to me with a bunch of roses and said, 'Didi, will you be my Valentine today?'

Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.

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

Before Obamacare, many working class Americans had an upper middle class healthcare benefit that they got at work.

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.