“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.” ChildrenTwoSchoolTogetherMotherFightingFatherLevelsClassMiddleBrotherGrewGrew UpMy FamilySevenGradesMiddle ClassMiddle Class FamilyTwo Sisters Author:Muhammad Yunus
“In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.” PeopleKindJobsOrderLevelsMiddleHigherSkillsTrainingIncomeAcquisitionHigher LevelGet Ahead Author:Marco Rubio
“I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a lot of Middle Eastern owners, we have American owners of course, Russian owners. It never bothered me one bit. All I was concerned about was that we at United maintained our level of expectation, be competitive, be at the top part of the Premier League.” WantMomentsCoursesBitsLevelsUnitedTeamMiddleExpectationsConcernedWorriedLeagueOwnersEasternBotheredPremier League Author:Alex Ferguson
“The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.” WantFeelsIdeasRealBlackWhiteLevelsAcceptingClassMiddleFemaleVoteOrganizationDemocraticDemocratMalesPursueMiddle ClassVotersElitesWorking ClassAffluentTacit Author:Ellen Willis
“being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.” WellsFeelingsLevelsClassMiddleIncomeMiddle Class Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.” CertainPoorLevelsClassRichMiddleChainsMiddle ClassKeep GoingLaddersCaribbean Author:Zoe Saldana
“Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?” CountryWholeLevelsMiddleStandardsEastMiddle EastSaudis Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.” WorldFirstsEnoughLevelsMiddleRaisesEastMiddle EastWorld Power Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“All Christian religions are outer-directed. "Who can I convert?" "Let's go to this country and make them Christians." "Wear this." "Do that." "No, don't worship that way. Worship this way or I'll kill you - for the good of your soul, of course." Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.” MenWayMindSoulCountryChristianCoursesLevelsConsciousnessMiddleApproachWorshipSittingWesternYour SoulBlissFollowersEastern Author:George Carlin
“Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me.” IfsKnowsWritingWellsLongSometimesLevelsMiddleNormalRainWinterDaylightImmersion Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."” ThinkingWellsKindIdeasLevelsClassNiceMiddlePleaseMiddle ClassPublic SchoolJoiningLegion Author:Tom Hardy