Quotes About Opportunity

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams!

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.