Quotes About Opportunity

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

For me, education was power.

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

European and American banks are conservative in the sense that they don't come at their full strength to markets where we are; that leaves us an opportunity to be successful.

My experiences led me to the Conservative Party which embodied my belief in helping everyone reach their potential regardless of their background.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

Not a lot of teams take you into consideration, like a lot of teams can easily decide to if you're hurt or anything, make you go play.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.