Mittelstand Quotes & Sayings

If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security. — Steve McFadden

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up. — Paul Begala

Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence. — Tom Peters

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. — Giovanni Battista Brocchi

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man. — Malcolm X

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up. — Tom Vilsack

As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies. — Wally Lamb

The best measure of a politician's electoral success was becoming not how successfully he could broker people's desires, but how well he could tap their fears. — Rick Perlstein

One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled. — Vance Havner

In addition to the alienation of farmers, large parts of the Mittelstand, growing numbers of industrialists and of the nationalist right by 1928, there was a further worrying trend facing the regime, the progressive disillusionment of young people and of the literary and cultural elites. The First World War and its aftermath had shaken loose many of the traditional ties binding young people to their families and to their local communities. As the Koblenz authorities noted in the early 1920s, 'the present sad appearance of the young, their debasement on the steeets, in pubs and dance halls results from the absence of firm authority by fathers and by schools during the war. The children of that time are today s young people who have little sense of authority and discipline.' In Cologne, it was observed that young people were spending too much time on 'visits to pubs, excessive drinking and dancing'. As — Ruth Henig

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people. — Raf Simons