Working Class Pride Quotes

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

A working class hero is something to be.

Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.

I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

I love just working. I love the idea of being a working class citizen.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.

Our Party conferred the honourable title, 'The Heroic Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,' on our working class that supported the great leaders' ideas and leadership with loyalty.

There's a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

I'm blue collar, which means white trash with a job. But it also means people who take pride in what they do.

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

Manchester United is a factory workers' club. You have to respect that culture.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

There's a strong working-class work ethic in my family, which makes us strong.

I like to think I won't change as a person, even if I go on to win 20 world titles. I will still be just a working-class lad from the Potteries, the same daft old me.

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.