Christian Morgenstern Quotes

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

I was as middle class as it comes.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change.

Better educated than wealthy

For a number of years, I've wondered if people like us are the forgotten. We're not the poor, and we're not the rich. We're not the very young or the aged. We're the average American family.

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

This is what I think about poverty: why waste the potential of people? You never know what you've got going in society unless you give people a chance.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect.