Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1936

Topics

FutureChildrenBlessingsSeeing

I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing.

Joe Arpaio

ExperienceIntelligencePastBetter

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

John Banville

LifeWorkPeopleYouLookLiving

My parents have had a love marriage, so I have made it pretty clear to them that I, too, will have a love marriage.

Sonakshi Sinha

LoveMarriageParentsWillPretty

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

Stockwell Day

LifeBelieveFindWillDifficult

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

Tom Heinsohn

IntelligenceI AmPersonDoneTry

I was influenced very much by St. Francis of Assisi, whose idea was to radically live the gospel. He was not a priest, or even a brother. He was a layperson. His whole concept was to emulate Christ through the gospels, and to live it in a radical way.

Tom Catena

LiveBrotherWayThroughPriest

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

Rob Thomas

WorkTryingMarsAirGetMade

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

Mary Pope Osborne

LoveTimePastReligionPoetry

I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do.

Josh Homme

HateYourselfMeThinkYouKnow

Our focus is on electing Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Democrats across the country, thanks to Democratic Party that is strong, unified, and poised for victory in November.

Donna Brazile

FocusVictoryStrongPartyCountry

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

Chauncey Depew

WomenManBadOptimistPessimist

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

Christina Aguilera

BusinessTrustYouYoungHardOut

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