Billy Squier Quotes

I was as middle class as it comes.

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.

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.

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

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

I'm painfully middle class.

I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.

I grew up in the middle class.

I'm no different to other working class players.

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

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

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

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 don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

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

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

I am hard-core middle class.

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

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.