Quotes About Education

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.