Quotes About Opportunity

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year... Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.

When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it--and not get caught.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge, anything at all...

Siempre que sientas deseos de criticar a alguien, me dijo, recuerda que no a todo el mundo se le han dado tantas facilidades como a ti.

agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key

I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.

Every man is born a success, he makes himself a failure.

Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe.

El sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.

Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.

Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.

Cuando sientas deseos de criticar a alguien" -dijo- "recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las mismas oportunidadades que tú tuviste.

Fine dives have been made from flimsier spring-boards

Let's build a town where

It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them.

In America, no matter how poor you started out or where you came from, you could go as high as you wanted if you were willing to work for it.

He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.

As recent immigrants, they wanted their children to speak and read English well. Miss

The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.

Newborns in Chicago's majority-White, upscale Streeterville neighborhood can expect, on average, to live to be ninety years old. That is three decades more than those born in Englewood, a predominantly African American neighborhood to the south.

Capital is a coward

No wonder the report found that minorities made up 37% of the US labor force in February 2020 but accounted for 58% of the newly unemployed by mid-March.)