When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
According to research, test scores improved by 17. 3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4. 6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.
I distrust great men. . . . I believe in aristocracy, though. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. . . . They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure and they can take a joke.
I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.
I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.
In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.
The transfer of [. . . ] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.