Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernie Siegel

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.

We want to lift all incomes and wealth. We are starting to see that the income gap is largely an education gap.

This matters because education leads to opportunity. What happens to the second and third generations is the story of the future of California.

Paul Andrews

This is truly a unique partnership between private enterprise, non-profit organizations and governments at the local, state and federal level, ... This development, in conjunction with new education programs for youth, marks the start of a new era in sports business.

This is tremendously disappointing, ... The reason they were prohibited from offering supplemental education is because they've demonstrated failure. So now they're going to somehow magically be really excellent in tutoring? Explain that to me. On what possible educational grounds should they be given a waiver?

Duke of Wellington

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

Duke of Wellington

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Douglas Wilson

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Dr. Seuss

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Dr. Seuss

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Dr. Seuss

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

Dorothy L. Sayers

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Donovan Bailey

Always educate yourself.

Donald Rumsfeld

Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow our people to continue to live free and unafraid. The decisions you make, the courage and creativity you bring to your responsibilities, will determine America's future. Liberty and our way of life are fragile gifts - their care is in your hands. We thank you for stepping forward to shoulder that immense responsibility. Your country is grateful, and proud of each of you.

Don Henley

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

Dalai Lama

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

John Sununu

In New Hampshire we still fund education locally. That is one of the reasons we have had historically such a strong school system.

In accordance with the principle of paying equal emphasis to the development of natural and human resources, we should value and solve the training and education of the poor,

David Crane

If you look at the statewide major occupational groups, it's pretty much as we expected. The larger the occupation, the more openings you have. Plus a lot are for more minimum wage and lower pay that would involve less . . . education and experience. And there's a lot of turnover in these jobs.

If you've got good credit, the private education loans for the upcoming year are going to be competitive.

Kapil Sibal

In the world of excellence, education must meet global standards, but there should also be equity for people.

In the workbook and family education session, we also provide tips about communications skills and decision-making strategies, helping families figure out how to start and then have these conversations in a way that's most useful.

J. D. Salinger

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

J. D. Salinger

It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Hannah More

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

Guy Kawasaki

The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

Glenn Frey

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

How could it come down to that? Kids have to get their education. They have to go to school.