Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.

Pierce Brosnan

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

We'll get some more benchmarks to look at and see how we're doing on those issues. We're trying to regionalize and improve our labor market information so that we can improve our education and training programs.

Those who are advocates of anti-poverty programs, social programs, education, have their programs threatened by runaway entitlements. There won't be room for both.

You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.

Hakeem Jeffries

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.

Robert Lloyd

Our indications show that we're in line with the same similar local education systems.

Overdevelopment is the No. 1 issue in my district. It comes up more than education or police protection.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories are valid or invalid.

My parents placed a high priority on education of their children, as their whole generation has, ... They saw the value of the opportunity that it presented to my generation.

National Wear Red Day is actually part of Go Red For Women month. It's a promotion for heart education and wellness for women. We have touched on a lot of that throughout February.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

Martha Stewart

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

Sathya Baba

Living with God is education,Living for God is Service,Living in God is Realization.

Alice James

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Alice Miller

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Childress

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Alice Duer Miller

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.

Alice Cooper

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

Alice Cooper

Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.

Alice Cooper

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

Alice Cooper

The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.

Alice Cooper

He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.

Alice Cooper

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Albert Bandura

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Annie Dillard

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

D. H. Lawrence

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.