Inspirational Elementary Quotes & Sayings

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder.
We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school.
But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear. — Melinda Gates

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile. — Bertrand Russell

Conscious access to memory is a unique trait of living things, but memory itself is not. It's encoded in the minute vibrations between elementary particles. Our entire universe is built of information given shape. Part of that is its history. Its memory. — M.R. Graham

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. — Jo Ann Emerson

I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that? — Beatrice Sparks

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more. — Shania Twain

living in a culture that surrounds us with reminders of money may shape our behavior and our attitudes in ways that we do not know about — Daniel Kahneman

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking. — Bo Derek

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal. — Menander

Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ... try an Indonesian recipe. — Roger Von Oech

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is. — Drew Goddard