Middle Quotes

If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street.

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean as "bright and pretty." It's just not that simple.

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.

In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

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.

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

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.

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

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.

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.

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.

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

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].

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

We need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars that don't keep America safe.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.