Middle Quotes

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?

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

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.

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.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

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.

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.

We’re stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night? Michael: Moms like me.

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.