Jim Crace Quotes

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I didn't grow up in politics.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

I'm proud of my middle-class background because that's how I've grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

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.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.

I find some pleasure in noting that if I was a traitor to my class, I earned this distinction long before Franklin Roosevelt was called one.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

Growing up in Middlesbrough I was taught to be resilient and competitive. My teachers made us believe that just because kids were at private school up the road, it didn't mean they were better than us.

I grew up in a progressive household with a family that believed in equality for all, and that leaves its mark on you. In the past, I planned to go into politics and never considered Wall Street as an option.

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.

I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics.