Dropouts Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had…
— Nolan Bushnell
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a…
— Jared Leto
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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged…
— Ken Robinson
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The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a…
— Felix Dennis
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The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go…
— Shakira
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In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to…
— Michael Enzi
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In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
— Benjamin Barber
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Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of…
— Molly Ivins
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left…
— Adam Oates
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If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government…
— John W. Gardner
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Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but…
— Jared Bernstein
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We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.
— Stephen Fry
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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold.…
— Imelda Marcos
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Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children.…
— Walter Dean Myers
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While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as…
— Douglas Rushkoff
Who Wrote These Dropouts Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Dropouts Quotes as follows: