Top 1200 Upper-Class Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

Even in school, I used to get kicked out in every class except music. I was always at the top of my class in music.

When I was in Class Four, I wanted to be an astronaut. I am still fascinated with the universe. I decided I wanted to be an actor when I was in Class Eight.

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance.

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

My lower and upper teeth had to be removed.

In Britain, class is a neurosis. You judge people from the moment they open their mouth and start speaking: what their accent represents in terms of where they were educated, what part of the country they're from, what kind of class background they have.

I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

Unions sustained and fed the middle class. It's no coincidence that as union membership has continued to dwindle, so have the fortunes of the middle class.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?

Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

On flights, I cannot travel economy class, as I am too huge to fit into that space. I always have to travel business class.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

I do my workouts in the morning, and often I'll take someone from my team. The person I'm meeting with can pick the class, whether it's a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It's hard to run and talk - I haven't mastered that yet.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C for Cognitive Modeling. Unlike any educational experience before, I aced the class.

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith; I just dont think you should have it because it makes you feel safe. I think you should have it because you do. Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser and infinitely more loving than we're capable of understanding has a vested interested in the universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand.

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references to that class and all the imports?

There are a lot of communities within the Asian Pacific Islander umbrella that are predominantly more working-class or lower class, and those stories haven't been told yet, so my hope is that we see the gamut of perspectives.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

Your biggest challenge is a middle class mindset; PFS goes against the traditional, middle class way of thinking.

I took an improv class, and after my first class, I was like, 'Oh, I just want to do something like this. This is super fun.'

I was in the same class as Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard. So we really experienced Facebook in a unique way. It launched our sophomore year, and we were also the first class where it became a recruiting tool.

My friends were the class clowns, but I was the one in class doing Michael Jordan or teachers for no reason. I've always been amazing at impersonating real people, too, rather than celebrities.

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.