Top 1200 Great Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.

Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Fixing our schools must begin with reforming the way we attract talent to teaching.

I want to ensure we have more nurseries in schools, and that they open in time for parents to get to work.

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

You know this is a great, great country that we live in to be able to play this great game.

What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

God blessed me with a great wife, a great family, and a great coach.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.

If all schools become privatized in the U.S., the poor wouldn't be given vouchers for 'school choice.' They would have no choices.

When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.