Middle Quotes

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It’s in Afghanistan, it’s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it’s in the United States.

The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.

From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

We called [my son] Gary "Little Herschel" when he was in middle school - but then he didn't grow any taller. He ended up playing golf and being a really nice golfer.

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

The opportunity to perform. It's just the feeling of anticipation and then once you're in the middle of it - you get in the zone. That's what you hope for.

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.