Top 22 Quotes About Literacy Rate
#1. If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems.
United States Dept. Of Education
#2. Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk.
"What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad," Eve decided.
J.D. Robb
#3. Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
Frank Zappa
#4. There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.
Huey Newton
#5. Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
#6. The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
Mark Steyn
#7. Iran's population tends to be fairly well educated, with a literacy rate of 77 percent.
Cyrus Farivar
#8. For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.
Barbara Walters
#9. I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
Umera Ahmad
#10. I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.
Rebecca Hall
#11. We are the great danger. Psyche is the great danger. How important is to know something about it, but we know nothing about it.
C. G. Jung
#12. Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.
Mick Delaney
#14. If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
Nathan Myhrvold
#15. I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.
Milton Friedman
#16. There is nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.
Maya Angelou
#17. All my scripts have artistic backgrounds
ballet, concert hall, opera
and all the suspects and corpses are cultured, maybe I'll do one about the rare book business in your honor, do you want to be the murderer or the corpse?
Helene Hanff
#18. Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.
Robin S. Sharma
#19. I am not waiting for a prince on a white horse. I am waiting for you ... So why don't you kiss me?
Frank Warren
#20. The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.
Gina Bellman
#21. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing.
Jay Leno
#22. An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
Pope John Paul II
