The Middle Quotes
- Episodes
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- 301 Forced Family Fun (Part 1)
- 302 Forced Family Fun (Part 2)
- 303 Hecking Order
- 304 Major Changes
- 305 The Test
- 306 Bad Choices
- 307 Halloween II
- 308 Heck's Best Thing
- 309 The Play
- 310 Thanksgiving III
- 311 A Christmas Gift
- 312 Year of the Hecks
- 313 The Map
- 314 Hecking It Up
- 315 Valentine's Day III
- 316 The Concert
- 317 The Sit Down
- 318 Leap Year
- 319 The Paper Route
- 320 Get Your Business Done
- 321 The Guidance Counselor
- 322 The Clover
- 323 The Telling
- 324 The Wedding
- Season 4
- Season 5
- Season 6
- Season 7
- Season 8
- Season 9
The Middle

Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton) is a middle-aged mom living in the middle of America with her middle-class family: husband Mike (Neil Flynn), oldest son Axl, middle child Sue, and youngest son Brick.
Starring:
Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher, Atticus Shaffer.
Recurring Actors:
Brock Ciarlelli, Norm Macdonald, John Cullum, Marsha Mason, Jerry Van Dyke, Jeanette Miller, Jen Ray, Paul Hipp, Chris Kattan, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brooke Shields, Beau Wirick, John Gammon, Katlin Mastandrea, Jack McBrayer, Casey Burke, Daniela Bobadilla.
Original Run: 2009-2018.
Quote of the Day
Axl: You know, I've never really looked at your room before. When you feel your nerd powers being drained, do you come in here to recharge?
Sue: [scoffs] Get out of here, Axl.
Axl: Oh, I'm going. [clears throat] And you know why? Because a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Sue: Hilarious. Maybe I'll take a journey to the kitchen and tell mom you were in my room!
Axl: Jeez, hang in there, baby. Don't sweat the small stuff.
Sue: Would you just get out?! I don't go into your room and stare at your booger wall.
Axl: Hey! Some of those aren't mine.
Popular Quotes
Quote from Brick in Hecks on a Train
Brick: Do we have any details about the cause of Aunt Edie's death?
Mike: Just one. She was 96.
Brick: Interesting. Has anyone questioned Helen Riley? She was the perennial runner-up to Aunt Edie in the church pie contest.
Quote from Mike in Not Your Brother's Drop Off
Mike: How you doing balancing the checkbook?
Sue: Well, I must have done it wrong. I have your balance at minus $11.
Mike: No, you did it right. It's us who did it wrong. [Frankie and Mike high-five]
Quote from Mike in Survey Says...
Mike: You know when I was happiest? I mean really happy? When I was driving everybody. When they were small, and I'd be driving. Didn't matter where. It was just me at the wheel and you next to me and those three idiots in the back. And I knew everything was okay, 'cause I was driving. And I had it. I had everybody.
Quote Collections
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A collection of quotes featuring Sue's favored source of advice on issues affecting teenagers, kickinitteenstyle.com
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A collection of quotes about Brick's favorite sci-fi book series, Planet Nowhere.
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Enjoy holiday quotes from Christmas episodes of The Middle.
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A collection of quotes about the Heck family's grocery store of choice, the Frugal Hoosier.
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Enjoy a selection of holiday quotes from Thanksgiving episodes of The Middle.
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“The Misidentification of Sue Heck”
A collection of quotes where Sue Heck is misidentified as someone else, including Ana Hajarajanaan, Barb Heckie and Sue Hickey.
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Quotes from Mother's Day episodes of The Middle.
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A collection of quotes featuring the blue bag, the perennially-misplaced snack bag which sometimes accompanies the Hecks on family trips.
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Trending Quotes
Quote from Brick in Sleepless in Orson
Brick: Actually, I was asleep in bed, and then I woke up and started to worry about the Asian stock market. It opens early, you know.
Frankie: Of course.
Brick: Well, I started to feel a little anxious, so, taking Dr. Fulton's advice, I came out here to do some jumping jacks, and while I got the jumping part right, when it came to the jacks, my coordination was a little off, and I bumped into the fireplace, and Mom's royal baby goblet fell and broke.
Frankie: Brick.
Mike: That's okay.
Brick: I wanted to fix it, so I Googled "Gluing a broken goblet," and it took me to this interesting web page about Buddhism. It said a person should imagine the things they love broken and destroyed because in the future, everything ends up that way anyway.
Frankie: Okay.
Brick: So, I imagined the house burned down and you and Sue and Axl all dead and all my books gone and I had no one left in the world, and it started to make me feel better.
Frankie: It did?
Brick: Yeah. Suddenly, things made sense. It's like this Buddhist guy says. "You see this goblet? For me, it is already broken. I enjoy it. I drink out of it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over and it shatters, I say, 'Of course.' When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious." So I've decided, from now on, I want to spend every moment I can with the things I cherish most. [Frankie holds her arms out for a hug] So, I'll be in my room with my books. Try not to bother me.