Working Class Hero Quotes & Sayings

Time is the only critic without ambition - John Steinbeck — Moll Molone

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. — Martin Amis

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. — Elia Kazan

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company. — Chester Brown

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children. — Alan Jackson

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him ... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.' — Don Henley

The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won ... Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero. — Bill Moyers

The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort. — Martin Luther

A working class hero is something to be. — John Lennon

A true book is like a net, and words are the mesh. The nature of the mesh matters relatively little. What matters is the live catch the fisherman draws up from the depths of the sea, the flashings of silver that we see gleam within the net. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. — C.S. Lewis

At such times a young couple found it difficult to believe that in a few hours the whistle would call them, two slaves amongst a multitude of slaves, when they felt that each other was the most important person in the world! They walked on air, and saw the stars shine , and even poverty could not numb their hearts, but let them stray for a short time in that fairy garden whose gate opens but once , and , once closing, nevermore! Miss Nobody- Ethel Carnie — Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

It is much more challenging to accept those who know a lot than those who know little. — Eraldo Banovac

We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring. — Daniel Johns

Every problem has a solution. — Lilas Taha

That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit. — John Lennon

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV — John Lennon

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion. — Booker T. Washington

Let's not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts. — Vikrmn

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere. — Ruud Gullit

There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy. — Richard Louv

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community — David Riesman

Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss. — Rhys Ifans

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting. — Billy Corgan