Dropping Out Of School Quotes

#1. When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

Bill Cosby

#2. Girls dropping out of school because of early and unwanted pregnancies. The reason? They did not realize the value they possess in their body.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Walter Dean Myers

#4. Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Adam Fletcher

#5. Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant.

Michael Grant

#6. It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.

Ezra Miller

#7. Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.

Hank Johnson

#8. We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

Bernie Sanders

#9. I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Joe Klein

#10. I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

Daniel Woodrell

#11. If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.

Sean Covey

#12. In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone.

Sterling Hayden

#13. Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been. Miller's

James S.A. Corey

#14. In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.

Sarah Chalke

#15. I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn't a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.

Philipp Meyer

#16. Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

LZ Granderson

#17. Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

Alexander Pope

#18. When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless ... But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

#19. It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

David Sylvian

#20. I heard the front door open and Rita hustled into the house, home from dropping the children at school. She went through the living room and into the kitchen making all the loud and distinct sounds of someone trying to be quiet.

Jeff Lindsay

#21. School sucks. I'm dropping out and becoming a truck stop waitress. I think i'll change my name to Flo and get a really bad perm. Flo the truck stop waitress with a bad perm doesn't need high school. She lives off the knowledge of life.

Tammy Blackwell

#22. When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.

Brian McFadden

#23. When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

Sophia Loren

#24. I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

Mary J. Blige

#25. I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.

Philipp Meyer

#26. A flower blooms to reveal her beauty just to express her gratitude for all the life, love, and light.

Debasish Mridha

#27. The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

Bill Gates

#28. I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Entwistle

#29. I've got about three minutes to get ready in the morning before dropping my kids at school and going to the office. But even with limited time, I still want to look natural and pretty.

Christina Zilber

#30. After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to.

Thomas Middleditch

#31. Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

James S. Coleman

#32. My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

Carrie Underwood

#33. Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.

Maya Tiwari