Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I 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.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I’m not really book-smart.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Education is the best provision for old age.