Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

James Payn

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

Emily Dickinson

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Emeril Lagasse

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

Ellen Ochoa

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

John Lancaster Spalding

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

Jim Rohn

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Dee Hock

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Carter G. Woodson

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

Benjamin Franklin

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Bill Gates

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Jane Goodall

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Benjamin Disraeli

The essence of education is the education of the body.

Calvin Coolidge

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

Daniel Handler

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

Chris Crutcher

...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

Dean Koontz

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

Dean Kamen

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Ed Markey

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

Elizabeth Bowen

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

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.'

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.