Class Norms Quotes

#1. You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive.

Bryant McGill

#2. Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

James S. Coleman

#3. Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

Jonathan Lethem

#4. Baseball freely admits that the sport
like civilized society
is crawling with bums.

Dan Gutman

#5. I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

John Major

#6. Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#7. It is a function of entrenched, intergenerational poverty that isolates too many lower-income Americans from even middle-class economic, cultural, and social opportunities and norms.

Yuval Levin

#8. In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms of propriety, ever advancing signals of cultivation.

David Brooks

#9. When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

Miranda Kerr

#10. I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

Shirley Maclaine

#11. Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Robert Rodriguez

#12. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Kate Chopin

#13. You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Thomas More