Middle Quotes - Page 5

• Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Fear, Women

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• If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

  Ariana Grande

  Sorry, Struggle, School

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

  Marilu Henner

  Deadline, Ifs

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• Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

  Kin Hubbard

  Humorous, Maturity, Boys

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• I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Thinking, Age, Fifty

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Danger, Young

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• Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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• We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Happiness, Two

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Directors, Boards, East

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• The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

  Anne Rice

  Character, Should Have, Principles

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Nice, Humorous

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

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• I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

  Rory Bremner

  School, Class, Childhood

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  Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Birthday, Friday

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• There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Class, America

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Running, Class, People

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• My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Moving, Class, Parent

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, New Beginnings

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

  Kid Rock

  Mom, Dad, Class

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• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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• Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Success, People, Ladders

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• We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

  Charles Schumer

  Class, People, Needs

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• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Perception, Age

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

  Charlie Sheen

  Jobs, Dad, Class

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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