Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lily Tomlin

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Les Brown

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

An investment in education is an investment in our future.

English girls' schools to-day providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, ... It will serve as one of the great equalizers.

Wally Herger

Each year, I have the honor of recommending young men and women for appointment to the U.S. military Academies, ... This is an opportunity for a top-notch education for the right kind of student.

Dr. King encouraged me to finish my education and pursue the ministry.

Equity comes from the state providing enough funding for its requirements. The state must meet its obligation for funding education.

Kendrick Meek

Florida has seen empty promises on education before.

Harry Reid

First, let's take Social Security and Medicare off the table so that those funds are protected. Then, let's take one-third of the surplus and give every American, not just the rich, a fair tax cut. Let's use another third of the surplus and invest it in education and other key priorities. Finally, let's use a third of our surplus to keep paying down the debt.

Maurice Allais

Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

There's probably about a generation and a half that have not had, by any standards we consider, an education.

At the forefront of global jihad are technologically savvy, Western-educated terrorists.

Andrea Lewis

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

David Miliband

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

We're very pleased. There's a great need for education about asthma. Knowledge is everything.

Sydney J. Harris

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

John Boehner

victory not only for low-income parents and students, but for American education as well.

David Perry

User education is paramount. They need to learn to look at the Internet as a city. You can move into the wrong neighborhood and it can ruin your life. You need to learn where to park or walk and where not to park or walk.

Robert Kiyosaki

In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

Scott Walker

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Anna Jameson

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.

Adlai Stevenson

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Bernie Sanders

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

Bernie Sanders

We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.

Bernie Sanders

Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

Bernie Sanders

How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

Bernie Sanders

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Bernie Sanders

In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do you think will have the best educated work force and a competitive advantage? We must make tuition free in public colleges and universities and substantially reduce interest rates on student loans.

Michael Williams

We want to give the chimpanzees an ideal retirement home and, at the same time, provide a unique conservation education resource for residents and visitors from around the world.