Famous quotes containing the word middle:
“After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Our children do not want models of perfection, neither do they want us to be buddies, friends, or confidants who never rise above their own levels of maturity and experience. We need to walk that middle ground between perfection and peerage, between intense meddling and apathythe middle ground where our values, standards, and expectations can be shared with our children.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)
“Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody elses house to earn money? Youre working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? Youre middle class.”
—Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)