Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence King

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Henry Louis Gates

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Henny Youngman

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

Henny Youngman

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Helen Keller

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Helen Keller

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

Helen Keller

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

Helen Keller

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

Helen Keller

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Catharine Beecher

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

Catharine Beecher

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

George Eliot

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

It's important to work, but it is not OK when work takes away from education.

Ken Anderson

It's open flying for guests and potential new members. The group is primarily for education and training.

It's unbelievable to see what he's done and the value of a Vassar education, ... What this place does for you and what you can do after opens your eyes.

Bill Frist

doesn't force any particular theory on anyone. I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future.

Construction, finance/insurance/real estate, education and public administration remain unchanged.

It will be a marriage of science, engineering, public policy and education.

It's a great education for the students. We've got these 15- and 16-year-olds and it's fun just watching them.

Accountability is such a huge piece of education, so that's really important for us to look at.

Mariska Hargitay

It's been quite an education doing this show and living in New York at the same time, and being exposed to so many different kinds of people,

Chris Ferguson

It's enough already. For me, personally, education is the most important issue.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

It's a thrill for me every time I get to talk to kids. Education is so important in our line of work and really for our country, and this is really where it starts.

Steve Spurrier

It's called keeping up. We just need to be in line with the rest of the schools.

It's an education lottery, and that money needs to go to education.

It's education through discipleship. We want our kids to be a light for Jesus.

It was a matter of making sure they were all educated. We need to do whatever it takes to keep kids safe.

It was kind of in anticipation of. We didn't know what he might be proposing. Given that not only he, but the Legislature in the past, has felt the urge to subject the Education Fund to new uses, we felt it was an appropriate expression of concern.

Ozzie Guillen

It was like a family. It was like the education my father gave me.

It makes me feel they (administrators) value our education and what we can provide for our kids.