Top 1200 Upper-Class Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.

The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

Everyone has class, one class or another.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.

The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school districts.

In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

I wasn't great in class and suffered from dyslexia and ADHD; still do. As a result I could never sit in class listening quietly, and my attention would inevitably end up wandering after a short while.

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

In the world of today, I think that entrepreneurs are the new emerging ruling class - I identify it as the startup class. That's the new proletariat of the 21st century. These are the people that are the drivers of the change.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me.

Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.

Visionary CEOs are not 'just' great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model: they are also world-class innovators.

It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

I was never an upper body wrestler. I am a shooter.

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.

We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.

In high school, driver's ed was at the same time as drama class. And I had to take drama class. Now I can sing the lead in 'Oklahoma!,' but I can't drive.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

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

I'm the middle-class kid; it doesn't sound exciting, but a lot of my audience is middle-class kids.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'

Class-action lawsuits should allow those with serious injuries to have their own day in court. The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act would do just that.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.

The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.

The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.