Jonathan Kozol Quotes

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessFailureSchoolPeopleYoung

You have to support people who want to do weird, different, fun stuff. Otherwise, it'll get very homogenous.

Jillionaire

FunSupportPeopleWeirdYouWant

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

Jessica Chastain

GreatWalkMeGiftDoneDirector

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

John Foxe

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I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

Amy Purdy

CreativeAlwaysOutDrivenThings

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

Rudy Giuliani

RevengeHumanNobleSentiment

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Russell Baker

TogetherMoralsChurchBadSunday

I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.

Mitski

ArtResponsibilityFightCoolStart

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

Ludwig Quidde

HistoryBeginningI AmLawEndWill

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

Jared Diamond

WorkHistoryTimeMeEnvironmental

That's what records are for: not to be skipped.

Jorja Smith

Records

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

Drake

MeCoolFriendsNeverHimAnything

Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

Dorothy Hamill

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