Jim Clifton Quotes

#1. There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.

Jim Clifton

#2. I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career.

Sean Bean

#3. He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.

Willa Cather

#4. Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#5. Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace, and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders.

Jim Clifton

#6. When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

Michael Bennet

#7. Look, you don't know what makes me tick, so stop assuming you do.

Codi Gary

#8. I remember passion.

Melina Marchetta

#9. Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.

Amy Tan

#10. As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Sargent Shriver

#11. May the Venusian arts enrich your life, not define it.

Mystery

#12. I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Angelina Grimke

#13. Scarecrows weren't meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?

Laura Ruby