Dropouts High School Quotes & Sayings

Heckman discovered that when you consider all kinds of important future outcomes - annual income, unemployment rate, divorce rate, use of illegal drugs - GED recipients look exactly like high-school dropouts, despite the fact that they have earned this supposedly valuable extra credential, and despite the fact that they are, on average, considerably more intelligent than high-school dropouts. — Paul Tough

In January 2004, the number of unemployed American college graduates actually exceeded the number of unemployed high school dropouts. — Ken Robinson

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word. — Friedrich Nietzsche

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream. — Alber Elbaz

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead. — Kamala Harris

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University. — Fred Thompson

Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share. — Jared Bernstein

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts. — Daniel Woodrell

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star. — Sandra Bernhard

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail. — Nolan Bushnell

Whose memories are these? Who speaks to her of this gentle time that she is too young to have known herself? There was hardship then, certainly, but not hearts chained and heavy with fear. Who is it that laughs with aged lightheartedness and suggests that this is still a place of promise? — Margaret Cezair-Thompson

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body — Khalil Gibran

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice. — Cesar Chavez

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. — Jesse Jackson

She would have auctioned off the Milky Way if it would have made his intentions a little less honorable — Marissa Meyer