Class Quotations | Page 11

The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don't even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.

My argument was that we could not stop Hitler by cooperating with other bourgeois parties but that only a united working class could stop him.

I was going to Columbia Pictures and Eastman Kodak had a class going for cameramen. I signed up to be a field cameraman. I showed this film to my professor and he showed it to Frank Capra.

One of the interesting and unfortunate effects of eliminating the draft is now there's a real class difference between those who serve and those who do not,

One thing I remember most vividly about Opal Eckert is that she could teach any kind of class - from the most basic high school English composition class to the highest level journalism class at the university. The Journalism Department at Northwest was in the basement of Colden Hall at the time she taught there. I remember that she was always there. She had more energy - give her something to do and she would just pitch right in and do it. She was unfailingly courteous, nice, businesslike and she always remembered names. She will leave a real hole in the world of journalism in northwest Missouri. I don't know anyone who has worked as hard or contributed as much as Opal Eckert.

One of the key drivers that has helped McAfee transform into a leading global security provider and achieve best in class profitability since 2002 is our research and development centre in India.

I worked very hard to prove myself to them at camp. We drilled from one end of the gym to the other end, had to teach a routine to the class in front of Billy and pass a written and physical test. I had never been so sore.

I would find it strange that any worker who defends the working class could defend someone who is being question over his honesty and where there exists evidence of corruption.

I wish there were some way we could check the DNA on some of these SOBs that are allowed to come to games and show bad manners and throw stuff at Duke's team -- a class coach and a class team. Why is it that we find that all over the country, not only in college, but in pros? You ought to be able to check the DNA of an idiot, and do something about it, so you'll not be able to see it again.

I was setting in class and got a text message. I wanted to jump up and scream, but realized I probably should keep my emotions inside of me.

I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up.

Newbury just played better than us. They were the class team tonight.

Nobody can take away what our class was able to accomplish. I don't think there will ever be a group of seniors like this class. We won 85 games in a row. I don't think we would have ever done that.

Nick was special to me because he was similar to what I was like in school -- he was the class clown,

I would be very skeptical of any claim that any plaintiff did better than a class member.

I would say if you're ranked No. 1, you better be really good, because it takes on a life of its own. Everyone complained that we had the best recruiting class in country but we only won 10 games. I said, 'Yeah, I know, we were terrible.' Chris Simms finished as the school's all-time passing leader, Cory Redding starts for Detroit, and some people think that class wasn't a success.

When I came to Denver, ... I wasn't much of a student and really didn't think I could finish with a degree. Then I look at Ted who has a 3.94 GPA and working for a biology degree towards medical school. The guy is up until 5 a.m. doing homework, then goes to class and practice, even helps me with school stuff. He makes all of us better students and players.

When I came to Iowa, we had to change everything that was associated with a long-held losing mentality. We had to change the total environment-from the players' conduct downtown, from their record of class attendance, from their way of dealing with people. We had to work with the total individual athlete and reconstruct his values and image.

When I looked in the faces of the senior class, this is the class as freshman that had nine wins and 20 losses. People gave up on us, but they (the seniors) didn't.

When I looked on the court last year, about every possession I was seeing four freshmen. We'll be the most experienced sophomore class in the Big Ten. Finally, we have some experience. Finally, now we have some carry-over in knowledge.

When I had her as a teacher all of the kids in her class ended up calling her mom. She had this way of instilling the desire to learn in her students.

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

(My hope is) for it to be a first-class facility that will serve the citizens of Orangeburg and Orangeburg County while also being a facility that will attract teams from all over the Southeast to play on our fields, use our hotels and eat at our restaurants. (It) is going to be a definite economic benefit to the community.

My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it's always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it's different every day. It's a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.

My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.

Some of make-up's perennials have disappeared off the beauty barometer this season, replaced by a new, less obvious class of looks that takes elements of make-up past but gives them a modern edge,

Obviously we brought in a large class. We're going to get on the field this fall and determine some roles.

One step up from perfume, the handbag is also the most accessible item an ordinary working woman can afford from a very exclusive house. Status bags are a cheap thrill, comparatively speaking, for those who want business class but are living coach.

One of the things that we teach in the class is tolerance and understanding between different groups. That's why we wanted to do something to celebrate black culture.

One type of laughter arises spontaneously from the perception of a certain class of events, while the other is used strategically in interaction to influence others or modulate one's own physiology.

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased.

No one believed that Wisconsin's program could be restored to great eminence, ... Barry did it with class and energy and skill.

One hundred and fifty thousand Cambodian people in the United States now were either born in a refugee camp or their parents were born in a refugee camp. The person that sits next to you in class may be a refugee.

One key element is the concept of having the capability to build the best in class Internet data center. There was a big gap in terms of Nortel's capabilities around that. And the network edge is moving closer to the data center anyway.

My goal was (to finish in the) top three. But after I found out the strength of this weight class, getting fifth . . .that's a good weekend and I'm not ashamed at all.

More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pay them a living wage to actually buy a home and live in our community.

More or less, this was our best against their best. This whole program is built on class and character, and we weren't going to leave anything up there. They had heart and soul to the end.

My curiosity was piqued, so I tried to get as many numbers from as many schools as I could. I don't want to be quoted as a guru or anything, but based on the numbers, if they don't move anybody up the cutoff is somewhere around 1,970 or 1,980 (for Class 5A).

No one who has done this class consistently has not shown improvement.

Maybe they need to upgrade their skills on the computer. We can do a one-time class in Word or Excel or Access, which can give them an advantage over someone else.

Perez is the best in the area at that weight class. So we knew it was going to be a tough match. But Thomas had a great tournament.

No doubt our schedule helped us. For example, our game against (Class 4A) McCutcheon was great preparation to play South Central. Those two are very similar. There wasn't anything in the tournament that we hadn't seen, today included.

No due process issue is raised by legislation that seeks to redress injuries suffered by district residents and visitors resulting from the manufacture and distribution of a particular class of firearms whose lethal nature far outweighs their utility,

no class at Wilson has more than 22 students at this time.

Now the Jets feel as if they are second-class citizens in this stadium deal. They want to be true partners on all aspects of any business plan.

Obviously it's for the upper class because they're the only ones that can afford this kind of money up front.

Nursing is a calling, a dedication to a profession. It's really rewarding to walk in a hospital and see graduates of your class working there.

Now, they are designed in such a way that Class D amplifiers for portable devices don't require output filters ? although very high power Class D amps (10 W to 20 W and up) still need them.

People with this disability find it very hard to block out competing noises. For example, if a person with this disability was having a conversation with another person, and a fan was blowing in the room, the person with the disability might not be able to block out the fan and lose the conversation. A noisy class environment could make it tough.

People were fired up. We had several recruits at our game, and they're fired up. It's going to be a top 10, possibly better, class in the entire country. It's going to be one of the best classes that I believe, if everything stays on course, that we've had here in a long, long time.

Obviously, they're impact players. When you lose impact players, it hurts. You have to expect other players to step up and fill different roles, too. Our (current) freshman class has so much potential that we think the offense will be there.

Obviously we addressed some needs after the losses we had from last year's team. To have the eighth-ranked class in the nation shows the work that Dan McDonnell has done to keep us in a position to continue to compete nationally.

Naturally, there are injuries but we also may need a player at one of our other Class A (long season) teams in Palm Beach or the Quad Cities. We also may want to bring up a kid from the rookie league in Johnson City. That's why it's so much fun for the fans because they can see a lot of good, young players.

Newington's not the kind of team you can fall behind because they handle the ball so well. If you have to chase them you're in trouble. I thought there were some great efforts out there... Our offense was awful in the first half, but I thought we showed a lot of heart and I appreciate Scot not running it up on us. He showed a lot of class and gave us a chance to compete in the second half.

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?

Right now, higher education is inaccessible for working class families and people of color. Rather than ask the state for money, they said, 'Why don't we increase segregated fees by $200 a year for every single year for the next 30 years for every single student?' That's a lot of money.

My first year teaching, I had 57, if you could imagine, 57 students in the class and I guess the smallest class I taught was 18, a few years ago.

My life has been nothing special. I am a quiet person who came from a very ordinary, middle-class Negro family.

I don't know enough about him to have an opinion. I want to make sure that he's compassionate toward the working class and the middle class.

I don't go out to the house, but have them show me in class what they are doing. Many times we can figure out the problem.

I have been writing music for about three and a half years and was always encouraged by other people to continue and keep writing. I thought this class would be like validation. If I'm really meant to be a songwriter after this, I'll know.

I grabbed a sighted guy, ... and threw him to the ground, and I said to the class, 'Did you see that?'

If there were to be six classes, we would be in the largest class and still play schools almost twice as big as us. Penn, Ben Davis, Carmel, Warren Central, they will always have an advantage. It is the way it is.

I don't have a whole lot consternation about it. I've been here five years and can tell you exactly what our record was those five years. But I can't tell you where we ranked in recruiting. Having a top 10 class validates you a little bit, but until the players come in and do anything you're not truly validated.

I don't feel like I focus that much on class issues. I'm more interested in stories about people who can feel like they belong, or don't belong. It's a lot like junior high school, unfortunately.

I don't even know what a middle-class shopper is.

If they would have taken his license for some months or had him take a driver safety class that would have made me feel like justice was served. But nothing was done -- nothing at all.

I don't know. This is a great class, a lot of good drivers. I don't know what to expect. I just want to stay out of everyone's way and have a good time.

I don't know that we've ever brought in four tackles of that size in one class, even when we were at Georgia Tech. We've got some players.

If we knew how tough the weight class was, we might have reconsidered our decision. But you never know. Maybe he'll knock off the No. 1 seed right off the bat -- he's been wrestling pretty well.