Middle Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  War, Views, Years

  Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

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• None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

  Anne Tyler

  Mom, Motherhood, Age

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Father, Class, Nebraska

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• A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

  William A. Henry III

  Age, Poetic, Longing

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• 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

  Teacher, Teaching, School

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• Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

  Richard Armour

  Life, Men, Wife

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• Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

  Goldwin Smith

  Religious, Age, Church

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

  Lindsey Shaw

  Girl, School, Trying

  "Lindsey Shaw Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. July 30, 2006.

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• The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Class, Proletariat, Controversy

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• In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

  Nick Clooney

  Class, Wiping Out, Saving

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• On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

  Theodore Bikel

  Funny, Ends, Stage

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• The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Class, Issues

  "Tim McGraw: I'm 'a True Southern Populist Kind of Democrat'". www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2006.

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• It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Safety, Age, Valve

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.14, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

  Paul O'Grady

  Games, Dresses, Shows

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• I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Theatre, Actors, Traffic

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• I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Easter, Peace, Believe

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• Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Retirement, Fun, Age

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• The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class, White, Population

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• You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  Andrew Denton

  Comedy, Comic, Hard

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

  James Ellroy

  Class, Circles, People

  James Ellroy (2012). “Conversations with James Ellroy”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

  Nick Clooney

  Class, Germany, Nazi

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• My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

  Ken Follett

  War, Writing, World

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• A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

  Eliot Engel

  Class, Important, Values

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• Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Struggle, Class, America

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• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Jack Kingston

  Military, College, Class

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