Margaret Halsey Quotes

I grew up in the middle class.

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

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.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

I was as middle class as it comes.

I think you will find me to be a typical middle-class American.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

I'm painfully middle class.

For a number of years, I've wondered if people like us are the forgotten. We're not the poor, and we're not the rich. We're not the very young or the aged. We're the average American family.

The level of real income is not what determines whether they are happy or not. It’s their relative place in the pecking order.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

I'm a nice middle-class girl.

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.

Most of my films are set in an upper-middle-class world of well-off people who may have all kinds of emotional problems, but they live well.