School Quotes by Michelle Obama

We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.

— Michelle Obama

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

— Michelle Obama

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on…

— Michelle Obama

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately - I went to law…

— Michelle Obama

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof…

— Michelle Obama

The biggest obstacle facing girls is education, education, education. There are too many kids who think high school is a pit stop…

— Michelle Obama

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every…

— Michelle Obama

We learned about gratitude and humility, that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us…

— Michelle Obama

While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot…

— Michelle Obama

I tried to be a serious student and not procrastinate, but I was still somebody that would be described as somebody who…

— Michelle Obama

Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in…

— Michelle Obama

I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was…

— Michelle Obama

One of the things I want ... all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not…

— Michelle Obama

African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop…

— Michelle Obama

After I got out of law school and worked in a big law firm, I thought, there are so many kids like…

— Michelle Obama

Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of…

— Michelle Obama

I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture.…

— Michelle Obama

I had the honor of meeting a young Pakistani woman named Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and nearly killed just for trying…

— Michelle Obama

Our kids didn't do this to themselves. They don't decide the sugar content in soda or the advertising content of a television…

— Michelle Obama

I was an incredibly devoted student, and I would often wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to study. But…

— Michelle Obama

What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher…

— Michelle Obama

Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary…

— Michelle Obama

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because…

— Michelle Obama

Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the…

— Michelle Obama

Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in…

— Michelle Obama

It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their…

— Michelle Obama

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States…

— Michelle Obama

When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched…

— Michelle Obama