Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Cox

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

Fred Wilson

He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Aaron Blake

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.

Russell Baker

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

Ruben Blades

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Tryon Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Tom Wood

I think we showed a little character. We kind of hung in there and that was nice to see. We missed some shots and made some funny choices with what we wanted to do with the basketball, but we managed to win the game.

Saul Bellow

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

Sarah Dessen

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Warren Farrell

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

Steve Vai

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

Zig Ziglar

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

Zoe Sugg

Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world-or you can make it something that takes away.

Kate Clanton

Part of it is being a parent. I see so many kids that make some choices that maybe aren't very healthy. I would like her to get some leadership responsibilities.

Ben Stein

I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

Robert South

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Bryan Whitman

There is, obviously, sufficient body armor for every deployed service member.

Brent Weeks

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were ""just going down to the corner.

Jamie Wyeth

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.