Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

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• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Tears

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • See
  • Relationships

• Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Writing
  • Story

• The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Problem

• There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Itself

• Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Home
  • Together
  • Boy

• Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Interesting
  • Fashion
  • Idea

• We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Dream
  • Welcome

• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
  • Sexuality

• Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Mean
  • Everything
  • Computers

• My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Live
  • Pictures
  • Tools

• My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Friends
  • Date

• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Forever

• I love watching other beauty girls on YouTube, so I get a lot of ideas through their videos. I also get plenty of requests from viewers, which is great. I can never run out of ideas!

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Beauty

• My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Mom

• When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Want
  • Brother
  • First

• When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • People
  • World
  • Remember

• You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Question
  • Beginning
  • Spiritual

• I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Want
  • Reason

• Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Michelangelo
  • Nicodemus

• The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Stop

• Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

  

  Jonathan Kozol