Class Quotes

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

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.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.