Middle Class Family Quotes

#1. I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#2. I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

Anne Hathaway

#3. I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

SonReal

#4. I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.

Sherri Saum

#5. I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

Hillary Clinton

#6. I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#7. I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

Anne Hathaway

#8. I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

Anupam Kher

#9. You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

John Le Carre

#10. My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.

James Costos

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

Nita Ambani

#12. I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.

Suresh Raina

#13. I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

Benjamin Clementine

#14. TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows.

Mona Singh

#15. Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

Larry Gagosian

#16. We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

Mamata Banerjee

#17. I'm a girl from South Carolina. I was raised in a middle class family and decided to major in broadcast journalism and now I'm at the national level and that doesn't happen to most people and I realize that. I know that I'm very fortunate but this great country allowed that to work in my favor.

Ainsley Earhardt

#18. I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Maureen Forrester

#19. Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

Virat Kohli

#20. Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

#21. I cannot take away the fact I am a small-town boy from India, from a lower-middle class family, and was actually standing in front of De Niro - not on an equal level, but as an actor, on the same pedestal.

Anupam Kher

#22. I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.

Thalia

#23. I would say I came from upper middle class family.

Bob Newhart

#24. I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

Kangana Ranaut

#25. I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college.

Chris Christie

#26. I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

Tom Hardy

#27. If this was a middle-class family in Alfheim, I didn't want to split a lunch tab with the one-percenters.

Rick Riordan

#28. up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.

Walter Isaacson

#29. I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

Suresh Raina

#30. When you have a comfortable and loving middle-class family, sometimes you yearn for a dance on the edge. This can lead to an overactive imagination, but it is also the reason why kids in Montana do meth.

Amy Poehler

#31. 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

Nancy Travis

#32. 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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#33. I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

Lavrenti Lopes

#34. I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

Chris Martin

#35. I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.

Kyrsten Sinema

#36. The biggest roadblock to middle-class economic advancement is that governments confiscate more than a third of all family income. Each year the average American taxpayer works 127 days - from January 1 until May 7 - just to pay taxes.

Thomas DiLorenzo

#37. The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#38. You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible.

Martin O'Malley

#39. Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

Larry Bucshon

#40. When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

David Mitchell

#41. The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

Chelsea Clinton

#42. My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

David Gross

#43. I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Billy Corgan

#44. In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Aravind Adiga

#45. My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

Kid Cudi

#46. Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!

Don Feder

#47. My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

Lorraine Bracco

#48. No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#49. Was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#50. I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Gertrude Stein

#51. Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Brett Ratner

#52. I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

Charles Kimbrough

#53. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Elizabeth Warren

#54. I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

Graham Swift

#55. I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

Walter Kohn

#56. I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

Gerard Butler

#57. I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Patti Smith

#58. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Barack Obama

#59. Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

Vivek Shanbhag

#60. When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

Marc Maron

#61. Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession
a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.

Don Alias

#62. I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

Ed Westwick

#63. Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#64. I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

Taslima Nasrin

#65. 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.

Dave Van Ronk

#66. I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

Elliott Abrams

#67. I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.

Pat Burrell

#68. Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

Tavis Smiley

#69. By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.

Abhishek Bachchan