Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts.… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because… — Adam Oates Copy Share Image
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue. — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty. — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United… — Brendon Small Copy Share Image
We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
