Quotes About Socioeconomic Status

#1. Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#3. Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Edwin Newman

#4. You want to believe that those who work hard and sacrifice get ahead and those who are lazy and cheat do not. This, of course, is not always true. Success is often greatly influenced by when you were born, where you grew up, the socioeconomic status of your family, and random chance

David McRaney

#5. In modern times, making family meals happen is hard, but family meals are a better predictor of a child's overall healthy eating, happiness, and success than the socioeconomic status of the parents or extra-curricular activities.8,9

Katja Rowell

#6. The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

Charles Murray

#7. Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Dejan Stojanovic

#8. All love is socioeconomic. It's the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

Gary Shteyngart

#9. I don't know. Maybe push harder?" "You had to check your little book for that?" I was annoyed.

Kami Garcia

#10. I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.

Cheyenne Jackson

#11. The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.

Paul Klee

#12. We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.

Andrew Murray

#13. The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.

Ray Nagin

#14. I'm not working class anymore,' he said. 'I'm lower-middle. I use three types of oil in my kitchen. Admittedly one of them is WD-40, but that counts, doesn't it?

Christopher Fowler