Quotes About Education

I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.

Every day I'm learning stuff. I started back in August with a DJ friend and since then I've been practicing and taking lessons every day.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'

I don't feel God can truly bless America again until we start praising him in our schools.

I'm for prayer in schools.

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

We've never tried to educate children. We've never tried to preach to them, just entertain.

To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it's entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to a kid through an interesting story, he'll be hooked.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

I work with kids every day, and I preach to them how much more they make and how much easier it is to get a job when they get a college education.

The point is movies can teach a lot without preaching.

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn't finish.

The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.

I think our young people are our most precious possession.

Let's face it. My dad was a mechanic, and my mom was a cop: my college options in seventh grade didn't look that great. And the chance I got to go to college and experience college life is something that's pretty precious to me.

We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.

I think when kids are younger, they don't have these preconceived notions of what a transsexual person is.

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

Our kids should be leaving school ready for success, not paying for the misconduct of predatory institutions.