#lass

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. ↗

— John Hume

#background #banks #before #borrow #class

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. ↗

— John Hume

#class #controlled #difficult #discriminatory #districts

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#because #class #corn #every #existing

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#class #education #even #family #frees

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#become #dust #glass #stone #thee

Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #simon #city

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink." "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it." Exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill— ↗

— Winston Churchill

#classic-insult #drunk #wife

[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#family #glass-castle #jeannette-walls #family

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. ↗

— Tori Amos

#dangerous #dangerous thing #doing #i #i think

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive. ↗

— Tori Amos

#classic #drive #green #husband #i