Jonathan Kozol Quotes

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicChildrenTimeChildPeople

We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.

Mitchell Zuckoff

LifeRespectWorldTryingImprove

My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.

Jay Parini

New YorkStartImmigrantsNewMy Own

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

Douglas Alexander

CommunicationGoingOfferOne-Way

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

Clint Eastwood

LovePowerStructurePoliticians

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Alice Walker

HeartYouLeaveSomethingPrint

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

Philip Roth

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The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.

Philippe Perrin

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It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Paul Vixie

InternetProtectFencesEvenOur

We must be able to appeal to the CCO and CMO with programs that have purpose at the core, that start movements and solicit views of the core community of brand supporters.

Richard Edelman

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President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

Lindsey Graham

LeadershipGodGreatSaidWillHim

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Lester B. Pearson

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I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

Kim Cattrall

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