Middle Quotes

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.