Quotes about class
class hatred steps
From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step. Mary Roberts Rinehart
class roger knows
Roger (Maris) was a class act and I know exactly what he went through. Mark McGwire
class use overcoming
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. Nikki Giovanni
class humanity suffering
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? Mary McCarthy
class names perception
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name. Mark Twain
class tyrants mind
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes. Mark Twain
class giving challenges
A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges. Nicholas Sparks
class games important
Class is more important than a game. Pat Summitt
class luxury pay
First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries. P. D. James
class protection scope
Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class. P. J. O'Rourke
class community bishops
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. P. G. Wodehouse
classic hellhounds
Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound. P. G. Wodehouse
class acting directors
Every director should take an acting class. Paul Feig
class reunion incidents
I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident. Paul Feig
class skills people
I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way. George Carlin
class mortuary
Equality is a mortuary word. Christopher Fry
class sitting different
My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class. Christine Taylor
class giving people
But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left. Christine Taylor
class feet childhood
I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood. Gilbert Gottfried
class evolution charming
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. Germaine Greer
class people serenity
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods. Gertrude Stein
classic accepted irritating
If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic. Gertrude Stein
class unlimited certain
Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money. Fran Lebowitz
class choices coherence
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy. George W. S. Trow
class ambitious sap
Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective. George Packer
class democracy inequality
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy. George Packer
class ideas people
I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class. George Osborne
class objective-truth succeed
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. George Orwell
class desire wish
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. George Orwell
class imagine newton
Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class. G. H. Hardy
class secret littles
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. Friedrich Nietzsche
class two people
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. John Ruskin
class roots way
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now. John Prescott