Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.