Lowell Milken Quotes

#1. The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to be well nourished and for exactly the same reason. A child's growth depends on it.

Lowell Milken

#2. The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

Lowell Milken

#3. The future belongs to the educated.

Lowell Milken

#4. I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas. In terms of survival, maybe I should have taken a shot elsewhere at some point, but it gets back to the same theme - we should have our own people telling our own stories.

Peter Hambleton

#5. Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions - the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

Lowell Milken

#6. Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

John Locke

#7. Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

Lowell Milken

#8. I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

Mary Lynn Rajskub

#9. Is that what I think it is?" - Colt
"Plastic explosives." - Oz
"You have stuff like that lying around your house?" - Colt
"Doesn't everybody?" Oz smiled as he walked to the far corner of the bunker, dragging Colt with him.

Jon S. Lewis

#10. One of the things I fucking hate about my fellow Americans: whenever they fly to a foreign country, first thing they do, they try to find as much of America as they can get their hands on, even if it's food in the shitty cafeteria.

Marlon James

#11. The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

Brendon Urie

#12. We come together,
Like drops of water, like astral bodies.
We oppose each other,
Like magnets, like the colors of skin.

Tite Kubo

#13. As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you.

Andrew Murray

#14. I don't want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.

M.C. Humphreys

#15. That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

Lowell Milken

#16. The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

Lowell Milken

#17. Awake my soul and my spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. So you killed him with what now?"
"I tried that Dr. Phil book at first" ... "And I finished it off with the toilet seat. Just so you know, you left it up again. That drives me crazy.

Jesse Petersen