Quotes About Opportunity

I am certain that my family - my grandmother, mother and myself - had a credit score of zero when we arrived in 1976. There were no credit cards in the Soviet Union, and we didn't have any money.

It's either some sort of a kismet or something that I've been offered a film like 'Zero Dark Thirty,' which I would have lined up to be the first one to watch that movie, had I not shot it.

Zero G is such a surreal experience, and something that is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

That year I went to Miss America, that was the first year I had competed in an adult pageant, if you could call it that. So it was zero to 60.

Climate change must be approached as an opportunity to transition our economy to a zero carbon future. Business understands this even when governments don't.

I had zero interest in banking, but the mountainous pile of legal training contract rejections forced me to look elsewhere. As a malleable graduate, I, as many students do, took whatever I could get.

Somebody should be able to come to Canada tomorrow and have success. If there's any barriers, if there's any racism, we're going to send a real message that there's zero tolerance.

People with advantages don't tend to want to give them up. If you see it as a zero-sum game, then it will never change. If only the people who are disadvantaged speak out, then it's not enough. I don't want to overshadow their voices, but I want to support.

This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.

I wish to be clear: all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

We will be a state that puts hardworking Georgians - no matter their ZIP code or political preference - first.

Your zip code or your income level should not dictate your access to healthy drinking water.

Every student - no matter their family income or zip code - deserves access to an education that prepares them to lead successful careers.

Education is important. And the difference of the zip code you grow up in or the zip code you are born in and how you turn out really isn't fair to the kids of our world.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

Our children... deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I'm determined to do everything I can to make sure every kid - in every neighborhood regardless of zip code, economic status and race or ethnicity - is able to live a life of safety.

No child's future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.

Often in America, access to the freedoms and privileges guaranteed under the Constitution are determined by ZIP code.

I believe that the key to building a strong economy in Wisconsin starts with education. Every single kid in our state deserves access to a good public education, no matter their zip code.

Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.

Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.

I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

The quality of your public education shouldn't be defined by your zip code.