Quotes About Opportunity

Every Moment is a Teaching Moment

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

If it weren't for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he'd never have hired me. Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

Interesting, thought Brother Wolf, seeing wounded prey. An easy meal.

Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors. We worked companionably in silence for

After this, anything might happen. Anything at all. - The End

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

How can she learn if you don't give her the chance to experience what she can do?

Sometimes it was best to make a change, and sometimes the only way to make a change was to be forced into it.

Things happen, Jacob," I heard Sarah say. "The rope broke. I could have died." "Don't, Sarah," said Papa. "You could have lost me, Jacob," said Sarah. "And that's the way life is. Something happens . . . one little moment in time. If you're lucky, you have a chance to make things better. You have that chance here. Don't let it pass.

All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don't die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don't have to fight. I don't have to survive. I can chose a new thing: to live.

Dating's all about giving you chances to bump and brush and touch and, occasionally, talk.

I'd go to school and walk up to people. "A new leaf," I said.

Right here at our doorstep, we'll have the most beautiful bridge in the world.

rocky terrain is unavoidable and may even be the path to something wonderful. "We can count on chaos,

We make mistakes, sometimes whoppers. We correct them or we capitalize on them.

If you're waiting for a special occasion to make your next trip happen, then consider this: The day you get off the couch and head for the airport, that's the special occasion.

There is a myth in this country that the way out of poverty is to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," that by sheer force of will one can change the course of one's life, no matter how great the obstacles. But in all my years reporting, I've never once spoken to someone who came from abject poverty and transcended that path without help.

Life is full of adventures we'd never take if we knew how they were going to turn out before we did them. But

Parce que choisir, c'est renoncer à tous les autres possibles.

Might-have-beens are insidious, aren't they, in the way they don't ever quite lie still or go away.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.