Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
Arthur Hertzberg

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
Naomi Watts

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.
Merce Cunningham

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
Bram Cohen

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.
Christine Lahti

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.
Morgan Brittany

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
Giraldus Cambrensis

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
Chuck Mangione

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.
Howard Coble

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.
Suzanne Farrell

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
John Marshall Harlan

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
John Robinson

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
Tammy Bruce

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
Beatrice Potter Webb

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
Phyllis Schlafly

Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.
Jimmy Swaggart