Undereducated American Quotes & Sayings

At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books. — Umberto Eco

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. — Jostein Gaarder

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan. — Baldur Von Schirach

Don't count your boobies until they are hatched. — James Thurber

I think," said Masklin, "that maybe they're intelligent enough to be lonely. — Terry Pratchett

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch

Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude. — Bryant McGill

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. — Eugene Cernan

To stay youthful, stay useful. — John Keats

They know that as long as they keep us undereducated, or with an inferior education, it's impossible for us to compete with them for job openings. And as long as we can't compete with them and get a decent job, we're trapped. We are low-wage earners. We have to live in a run-down neighborhood, which means our children go to inferior schools. They get inferior education. And when they grow up, they fall right into the same cycle again. This is the American way. This is the American democracy that she tries to sell to the whole world as being that which will solve the problems of other people too. — Malcolm X

There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today. — Frank Oski

When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted, or I partly wanted, to give it back. All my life I continued to feel that bliss for me would have to imply my mother's deprivation or sacrifice. I don't think it would have occurred to her what a double emotion I felt, and indeed I know that it was being unfair to her, for what she said was simply the truth. — Eudora Welty

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children. — Wendy Kopp