Quotes About Educated Citizens

#1. We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#2. Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

Sandra Bullock

#3. No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Nelson Mandela

#4. Dare beyond your strength, hazard beyond your judgment, and in extremities, proceed in excellent hope. Bare the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#5. For men born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right conclusion about the possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on which we originally started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians and watchdogs of the herd. True.

Plato

#6. The modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.

Narendra Modi

#8. It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

Bill Nye

#9. I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

James E. Rogers

#10. The minute you get engaged, you become public property.

Candace Bushnell

#11. As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

Emmylou Harris

#12. If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I'd probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn't see them, no one would know me.

Heidi Julavits

#13. The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

Dick Costolo

#14. In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#15. I have no grand scheme.

Dave Attell

#16. I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.

Abby Wambach

#17. It's best to give while your hand is still warm.

Philip Roth

#18. Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.

Jonathan Kozol

#19. We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#20. When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

Patricia Polacco

#21. If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?

Lindsay Hartley

#22. Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

Lucinda Williams

#23. I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

Kelly Rowland