Quotes about class
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. Cesare Pavese
class black why-not
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? Carter G. Woodson
class white benefits
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Camille Paglia
class order waiting
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. Camille Paglia
class together rural-areas
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism. Camille Paglia
classify pull
We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.
classic course developed dolphins looking plan public swim truer
What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.
class field goals hold playing solid team three whenever
Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.
classrooms clear kids schools seen truly whenever
Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be. Wendy Kopp
classy left pull rub starters
When you're up 25 points, you pull your starters out with 1:54 left in the game. It's a classy way. You don't need to rub it in.
classical kid might music people terrified
We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.
class lasts tools
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them. Aaron Swartz
classes field forth retiring talked together took trips
We were back and forth together and our classes took field trips together. We've even talked about retiring together.
classmates grade people school touched
We were touched by how many people came. Even her grade school classmates from St. Pius were there. We really appreciated it.
class earth pluto
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class. Alan Stern
classic married reader
Reader, I married him. Charlotte Bronte
class hatred today
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. Charles Trevelyan
class sometimes failing
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. Charles Dudley Warner
class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. Charles Dickens
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own. Charles Dickens
class safety age
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. Charles Dickens
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict. Charles Dickens
class homicide one-thing
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out Chris Colfer
classic said direct
Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American. Charlaine Harris
class people needs
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. Charles Schumer
class people care
Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care. Charles Schumer
class income needs
I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes. Charles Schumer
class people middle
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. Charles Schumer
class america income
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes. Charles Schumer
class enough situation
She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse. David Weber
class russia mafia
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. David Remnick
class want way
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise. David Riesman
class community interest
The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community. David Ricardo