Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Cruz

There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.

Ted Cruz

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

Theodore Roosevelt

No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible.

Theodore Hesburgh

It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.

Theodore L. Cuyler

The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

Theo James

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

The Weeknd

I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!

Thabo Mbeki

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

Terry McMillan

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

Terry Pratchett

I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.

Terry Pratchett

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

Margaret Mead

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

Marcus Brigstocke

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

Marcus Buckingham

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

Kina Grannis

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

Kin Hubbard

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

Kevin Systrom

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.

Michael Lewis

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Michael Bloomberg

When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.

Michael Bloomberg

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Melissa McCarthy

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

Michelle Alexander

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

Michele Bachmann

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Michael Steger

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

Michael Patrick Jann

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

Michael Parenti

Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'

Michael Parenti

In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.

Joshua Johnson

I had the mind-set that any school that wanted me, I was going to go there.

I had a reputation in high school for making trouble.

Neal Barnard

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

Neal Boortz

I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

Neal Boortz

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Neal Shusterman

The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no schools, no work, no clue if they'd even have a future. They just went nuts!