Quotes about class
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.
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 ugly rhythm
Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk. Muhammad Ali
class cadillacs firsts
If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
class race needs
You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce. Mitch Landrieu
class people dancer
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. Mikhail Baryshnikov
class america race
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. Marian Wright Edelman
class arguing reason
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes. Maria Edgeworth
class enemy slavery
If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State. Mikhail Bakunin
class acting actors
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots. Nicholas Brendon
class body littles
I go to a dance class myself called BBS - Body By Simone - its little mini dance routines and I am often the oldest person in the room although I forget that. I'm fairly fit. Naomi Watts
class america honor
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion. Mitt Romney
class race firsts
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing. Portia de Rossi
class way rich
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class. Joseph Stalin
class ideas russia
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.
class weight facts
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value. Paul Fussell
class america tvs
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
class ifs corsets
If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it! Patrick Rothfuss
class america russia
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America. Lillian Hellman
class royal wealth
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
class luxury people
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
class organization ideas
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition. Leon Jouhaux
class progress social
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
class division-of-labor leader
Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment. Leon Trotsky
class community democracy
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout. Learned Hand
class knowing people
Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story. Lauren Myracle
class may demon
Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings. L. Frank Baum
class-distinction picks
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. Pablo Picasso
class world england
In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world. Paul Merson