After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Dolly PartonI love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
Lady GagaI wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
Virat KohliThere was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinMy entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
Narendra ModiLittle girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret AtwoodThe first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John RuskinWhat I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.
Stephen HawkingWho will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Ruth Bader GinsburgThose that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
AristotlePower is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon BonaparteMy father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
Gordon RamsayThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. WashingtonWhen you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.
Lady GagaEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund BurkeWhere thou art, that is home.
Emily DickinsonModeration has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin DisraeliTo recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.
J. Robert OppenheimerWhat nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius CiceroKnowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PlatoHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis BaconI would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack LondonYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous HuxleyFor a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.
Marilyn MonroeI am who I am today because of my mother.
Kevin HartThe presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
Margaret AtwoodYou and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret ThatcherLet parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
PlatoEverybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAny reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James MadisonThe wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘
Lao TzuI came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.
David ByrneWhen I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.
Paul AusterThe problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas SowellI love to travel, but hate to arrive.
Albert EinsteinWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph AddisonAll things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.
Jordan PetersonPlaces I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.
Jimmy BuffettComputers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve JobsI want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.
Lady GagaIt took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
Paulo CoelhoMy education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan ThomasMy mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
Richard BransonI like school and I like learning.
Greta ThunbergI have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Emily DickinsonOnly God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy GrahamMy fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.
Kevin HartI am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Stephen HawkingThe training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI grew up in a funny way.
Gordon RamsayOne thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
Erma BombeckYou know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMy elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Benjamin FranklinEducationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
Haruki MurakamiMy mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.
Huey NewtonI always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
Matthew McConaugheyBut, you know, you can’t be a star at home.
Jim Carrey