Patrick Murphy Quotes

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'm painfully middle class.

I grew up in the middle class.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm the middle-class kid; it doesn't sound exciting, but a lot of my audience is middle-class kids.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

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.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

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

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

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