Middle Quotes

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Ramadan is a month whose beginning is Mercy, whose middle is Forgiveness and whose end is Freedom from the fire.

In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

TV in the middle of my steering wheel.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.

We are all going to die, sometimes even in the middle of a lease.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

It's easy to stand up and say I will destroy ISIS; I will make the sands in the Middle East glow in the dark. Well, that's fine, but you have to have something to do that with.

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.

Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

I've always felt that I need to be somebody in the middle of the lineup that's going to drive in runs and come up with big hits.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere!

The house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies!

A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!

Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!