Quotes About Urban Education

#1. I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

Jenna Bush

#2. I got a crash-course education in urban fantasy. I suddenly had to look up all these other writers I was supposed to be in a genre with. I instantly had to become an expert in this genre I knew almost nothing about.

Carrie Vaughn

#3. So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.

Jon Stewart

#4. Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Shah Rukh Khan

#5. In 2010, Jimi Heselden, the multimillionaire owner of the company that makes Segway personal transporters, died after transporting himself over a cliff on his Segway and plunging eighty feet.

Cary McNeal

#6. People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution.

Grace Lee Boggs

#7. He has given us all the gift of spontaneity - and hope.

Gloria Steinem

#8. While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.

Clarence Thomas

#9. My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#10. There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.

Queen Latifah

#12. It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

Hilaire Belloc

#13. Man becomes what he thinks about.

Rhonda Byrne

#14. Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.

Richard Mourdock

#15. Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.

Casey Wilson