Affluent Quotes

It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the rules and hope that will get you a measure of stability or happiness. That's part of the affluent suburban dream: to do everything perfectly in a long-winded way, to try to fulfill all the requirements. Robin Weigert
Happiness Hope You Woman Yourself Try Will Everything Top Way Rules Dream Obedient Follow Shape Part Perfectly Affluent Get Stability Suburban Fulfill Requirements Measure Keep
My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience. Russell Crowe
Time Experience Wife Mine Kids Kind Neither About More Had Environment Talk Because Than Affluent Being Us Much Raised
The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.' Sandra Tsing Loh
Parents Kids Out Fine Simply Merely Schools Terror Educated Affluent Decent Ordinary Many Keeps
Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain. Stephanie Coontz
Marriage Become Community Enter Emotionally Economically Like Well Affluent American Modern Sustain Low-Income Harder
We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad? Thomas Pogge
Obligations Wealth Needy Our Distant Hungry Citizens Give Abroad Tend Mainly Toward Countries Terms Redistribution How How Much Discuss Affluent Donations Any Transfer Much Should Away Assistance
Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities. Travis Kalanick
People Cities Most Affluent Influential Riders
Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars, flying to Hawaii, gambling in Las Vegas. We could live affluent lifestyles with half as much energy. Vaclav Smil
Government Shopping Car Half Energy Live Flying Hawaii Could Lifestyles Vegas Consuming Consumption Most Houses Wal-Mart North Affluent North America America Offices Personal Just Much Gambling Las Vegas
The Huxtables laughed and bonded and debated and lip-synced. They were glamorous and simple and extraordinarily human. And affluent. And educated. And so many different kinds of black. You'd think that all of that would make them the Howard University of African-American family life. But white people wanted to matriculate, too. Wesley Morris
Life Family You People Simple Black Different Kinds White Think Too Extraordinarily Laughed Would Kinds Glamorous Make Educated Were Debated Affluent Family Life Human Different African-American Wanted Them Many Bonded University
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. William Glasser
Knowledge Opportunities Will Long Schools Limited Educational Educational Opportunities Goal Families Affluent Acquiring Now
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly. William Julius Wilson
Class Economic Between Prior Began Affluent Middle Middle Class After Converge Gap
The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts. William Weld
School Spend States System Systems Wealthy Districts More Had Most Lot Up Than Affluent Afford Public Poorer Public School Population Grown Grown-Up
The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds. Angela Rayner
Benefit Backgrounds Evidence Those More Schools Affluent Grammar Shows
I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it’s because you’re forced to have a certain humility if you’re not an affluent white man. Nish Kumar
Man Mistakes White Humility Corrected I Wonder Having Like Forced Because Wonder Affluent Certain
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