My Education Quotes

#1. Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

Severo Ochoa

#2. Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.

Cardale Jones

#3. That educated didn't mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.

Octavia E. Butler

#4. I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

Jerry Della Femina

#5. My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

Romeo Miller

#6. Most of my education has been around food.

Marcus Samuelsson

#7. If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

Irving Stone

#8. My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

Olivia Newton-John

#9. I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

Tony Kaye

#11. I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

Baba Kalyani

#12. From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

Hannah More

#14. Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

Raekwon

#15. When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes
remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education
make them hunters.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.

John Marshall

#17. My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Mary Shelley

#18. I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

Candace Camp

#19. Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

Wayne Dyer

#20. I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Mark Twain

#21. Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

William Donaldson

#22. I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Samuel L. Jackson

#23. My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it.

Jackson Guthy

#24. Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz ... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Aloe Blacc

#25. My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#26. I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment.

Jennie Finch

#27. I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Winston Churchill

#28. I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

Malala Yousafzai

#29. My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.

Phil Bredesen

#30. I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

Groucho Marx

#31. I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

Troy Andrews

#32. I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

Pete Seeger

#33. I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

Daniel Keyes

#34. My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

Eric Idle

#35. As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

Anna Friel

#36. My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

Alice Eve

#37. My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

Vidya Balan

#38. I always put a lot of priority on my education, even if that means taking classes after work or on the weekends.

Nolan Gould

#39. In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

Holly Near

#40. My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

David Brin

#41. I felt like I've needed to ask my parents up until about four years ago about everything. They have helped me tremendously, I came out of college with no debt. Everything they made, they just poured into my education.

Steven Yeun

#42. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.

Charles R. Swindoll

#43. I don't see why I should disguise the magnificence of my education when you do nothing to hide the paucity of yours.

Markus Heitz

#44. I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

Diana Vreeland

#45. Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling years. But apart from that, there were no friends or no long term associations. That was the only thing I knew was with me wherever I went.

Nimrat Kaur

#46. The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#47. Secondly, I continued my education in a more important way,
through the observation of everyone around me,
because nothing is more important to learn in life than
the interaction of a human being with another human being.

Marcus Sedgwick

#48. I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#49. There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures. I gained the wealth just engaging at that level. I'm still like that. I continue to document everyday people versus the stars.

Jamel Shabazz

#50. I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

#51. My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.

Rumer Willis

#52. I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

Natalie Portman

#53. I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

Billie Piper

#54. My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

Jeffrey Tambor

#55. I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

#56. Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

Ka Chinery

#57. My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

Osbert Sitwell

#58. I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

Marc Garneau

#59. I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

Ben Fountain

#60. Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

Danny Pudi

#61. I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#62. Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

Flannery O'Connor

#63. Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Beatrix Potter

#64. I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

Callan McAuliffe

#65. As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

Raul Castillo

#66. I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

Angelina Jolie

#67. The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

George Bernard Shaw

#68. My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.

Karen Joy Fowler

#69. I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

Olivia Wilde

#70. My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

Nick Offerman

#71. All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

Gretchen Wilson

#72. I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

Pierce Brosnan

#73. When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Felix Dennis

#74. I went to Parsons. American sportswear was my education, and that is what is important to me.

Chris Benz

#75. I never let school get in the way of my education!

Mark Twain

#76. I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#77. Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

Lindsay Fox

#78. My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

Flea

#79. One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

Anna Popplewell

#80. For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom' ... I can't fathom my own heart.

Michael Caine

#81. This was the environment in which I finally came to my education, the environment in which I knew I could no longer lie in bed and give up. How could I pull the blanket back over my head when I knew my teachers were waiting for me? When they were willing to work so hard, how could I not do the same?

Liz Murray

#82. For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.

George Sorel

#83. My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

Tim Hunt

#84. Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.

Cardale Jones

#85. Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

Eliza Dushku

#86. My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

Winston S. Churchill

#87. In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#88. I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

Alan Bennett

#89. My education was very tough.

Ingmar Bergman

#90. I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school, and then I got music scholarships throughout my education. And that's what I was going to do. And then I took a left turn and went to drama school and became an actor.

Julian Ovenden

#91. I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

Ava DuVernay

#92. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

#93. The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

William James

#94. My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

Daniel Nathans

#95. My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state.

Mitt Romney

#96. Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#97. I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

Georgia Jagger

#98. I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

Danica McKellar

#99. Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

Margaret Drabble

#100. All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Jonathan Kozol