Wendy Kopp Quotes
Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.
Quotes to Explore
-
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
-
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
-
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
-
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
-
I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
-
'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
-
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
-
It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
-
As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
-
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
-
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
-
Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
-
People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
-
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
-
I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
-
I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
-
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
-
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
-
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
-
The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
-
For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.
-
The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
-
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
-
Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.
