Chris Martin Quotes

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.

I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

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

We were quite a middle class family, but we had access to all the good things in life, be it books or access to a club. I was outgoing and did a lot of elocution, singing and theatre.

My mother was from a middle-class background.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college.

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.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

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.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.

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 got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity!