Alissa Quart Quotes

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'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.

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

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

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

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

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 poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

A generation ago, it wasn't necessary to have a college degree to get into the middle class …

I was as middle class as it comes.

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

I grew up in the middle class.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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

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.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I am hard-core middle class.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.