Quotes About Class

Upper-class Victorians feared an overabundance of passion, believing it only complicated matters and, more dangerously, led to thoughts of unrealistic liaisons between persons of unequal social stations.

fell in love with my country—its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. . . . It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class. —Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Another part of Bit's unifying urban theory is sprinklers, that you can gauge a neighborhood's wealth by the way people water. If every house has an automatic system, you're looking at a six-figure mean. If the majority lug hoses around, it's more lower-middle class. And if they don't bother with the lawns... well, that's the sort of shitburg where Bit and Julie always lived, except for that little place they rented in Wenatchee the summer Bit worked at the orchard.

I fell in love with my country—its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. . . . It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class. —Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

The underprivileged are byproduct of society's material progress.

I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.

I did this class when I first moved to California. It was a 'Kids on Camera' class up in the Bay Area. That was good for just getting me excited in acting and everything. Then once I started working down L.A., I just stuck to my acting coach, and she helps me prepare with auditions and that sort of thing.

I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

I was a real unfocused academic student, always fiddling around in class, or doing something silly and thinking of something else that had nothing to do with school.

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

The fact that rich people get free stuff and poor people have to pay, it's backwards.