William Greider Quotes

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

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• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Dad

• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Long
  • Today

• We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Children
  • Relationships

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Energy
  • India

• I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Today

• I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Ancient
  • Finding
  • Died

• You see, this war came to us, not the other way around.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • War

• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Body
  • Stage
  • Volume

• If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • People
  • Life
  • Lucky

• It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

  

  William Greider
  • Children
  • Today
  • Chance