Middle Quotes

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

To have a week off in the middle of the season feels like a lot longer I think, so I feel really good. Hopefully I can go out there and get some runs.

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

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

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.

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

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

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.

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.

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

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.