Henry Mancini Quotes

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Golf taught me a great deal. I grew up surrounded by people who were professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers. Around them, I learned how to behave, speak, eat, dress. I had nothing at home. The club was my home.

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Slowly but surely the old establishment is being replaced by a new, larger, more meritocratic middle class—a middle class that will include millions of people who traditionally may see themselves as working class but whose ambitions are far broader than their parents and grandparents.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

Farmers who left the countryside for China’s cities and factory towns starting in the late 1980s now have children who dream of earning college degrees and landing white collar jobs.

I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.

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.

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler.

My great grandfather emigrated from Italy, and my grandfather worked in a steel mill and was able to raise kids and have a family and go on vacation.

My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.

Gary is a old factory town right outside Chicago. From my standpoint, my family migrated there in the '50s and '60s from Mississippi - Sardis, Mississippi - shout out to Sardis, Mississippi. My family migrated there just like a lot of black families in that area: they migrated there to get jobs, to get those factory jobs, that steel mill job.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

From education to the environment, from high wages to health care to human rights, California is proof that progressive policies put into action improve the human condition of all individuals.

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

Coming from where I come from, I didn't have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the luxury of hoppin' into the family business, you know?

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.