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Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1939

Topics

Children Best Parents Know Forget

I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.

Time Think You Product Ahead Your

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Wind Sails Nothing Out Take Ten

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Jeev Milkha Singh

Life Mistake Learn Temporary Regrets

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

War Win Win Or Lose Lose Defeat

When you get to Hollywood, you have to start from zero, whatever you've done before.

Start You Done Hollywood Whatever

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

Family Moment Present Down Now Out

Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

Doing Him Only Aware Who He

The first painting I remember selling was 'Panthera.' I made it while I was in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the museum actually purchased it directly from me.

Mickalene Thomas

Me Painting Remember Selling Museum

People probably don't give me the credit I deserve for holding the Strikeforce title, but the people who do know, know.

People Me Credit Know Deserve Give

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Business Food Simple Grow Fighting

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Funny Job Think Nothing Everything

There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.

Know Ignorant Pray May Some How

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