Middle Class Girl Quotes

#1. I was a country kid who went to a public school, and she was more of a middle-class girl who attended a private school. I was into hunting and fishing, and she liked drama and singing in the choir at school and church. Our lives up until that point were totally different.

Jase Robertson

#2. This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived her life and set off on a bumpy path that ultimately led her to her own slice of the happily-ever-after pie.

Tillie Cole

#3. I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

Kim Gordon

#4. I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

Jacki Weaver

#5. There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.

Tracey Ullman

#6. 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

#7. By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.

David J. Greer

#8. The class stared at the new girl with admiration. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. She was a good student. She sat down at the desk Mrs. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling.

Lois Lowry

#9. I believe that better times are coming.

Albert Einstein

#10. Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

Mae Jemison

#11. It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

John Leeson

#12. It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#13. I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

Goenawan Mohamad

#14. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.

Joseph Campbell

#15. I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#16. I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

Duop Chak Wuol

#17. We looked as if we'd been cobbled together in Photoshop, the three of us, walking to my husband's funeral. One white middle-class mother, one skinny black refugee girl, and one small Dark Knight from Gotham City.

Chris Cleave

#18. People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart
but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought.

Adelle Waldman

#19. What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

Octavia Spencer

#20. Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.

Edward Abbey

#21. Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it might be too late.

Tom Hiddleston

#22. She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them greedily they were like suns bursting open in her mouth.

Alice Sebold

#23. Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

Voltaire

#24. When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.

Claire Chilton

#25. I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

Billy Idol

#26. I know this kind of girl," Grace was saying. "It's the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up in this, like, greenhorn southern-Californian Asian upper-middle-class ghetto, where everyone is so shallow and money-craven.

Gary Shteyngart