Class Quotes - page 3

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? (Robert Sternberg)
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name. View quote
Debby Ryan
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. View quote
Giambattista Vico
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. View quote
James Hillman
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. View quote
John Hume
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. View quote
Wendell Willkie
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. View quote
Antonia Fraser
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. View quote
Agnes Smedley
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company. (Chester Brown)
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward. View quote
David Axelrod
I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor. View quote
Debra Wilson
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. View quote
Frederick Sanger
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
I strongly support tax relief for the middle class. View quote
Rick Larsen
Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. View quote
Rick Larsen
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown. View quote
Sally Kellerman
As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road. (Trish Stratus)
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects. View quote
Carl L. Becker
Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader. View quote
John Updike
Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries. View quote
Kim Jong-il
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. View quote
Evelyn Waugh