Education Quote by Wunmi Mosaku Download Open image “In Nigeria, my grandma sold everything - everything - for my mum's education.” — Wunmi Mosaku ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Everything Grandma Nigeria
My grandma was raised in Ghana, and she went back there to work, so she could earn money for my mum's education in Nigeria.… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that… — George Weah Copy Share Image
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father. — Patrick Cox Copy Share Image
My mother worked at home, making clothes, trying to make some money. — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money. — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free. — Nnamdi Asomugha Copy Share Image
Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side.… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty. — Burna Boy Copy Share Image
I think the saddest thing is how people take on guilt and blame that isn't theirs or doesn't belong to them, and how hard… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I honestly never wanted to come to America. It wasn't part of my goal as an actor. — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
You get to a certain age and you start comparing and being uncomfortable in one's body. And then you get to a place where… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
If I was to go around as a white woman, a white man, an Asian woman, an Asian man... the world would just respond… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I was always treated older than I am when I was a kid, so I had to be like, 'No, I'm sweet,' and this… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I read a script that's presented to me, and if I love the story and the role, I audition for the part, which is… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I feel middle-class, but my family had to start from scratch. There was no inheritance from a great-aunt. It feels like a slog. — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I don't know what can be done about knife crime, gang culture and people carrying weapons because it's a world I don't know about,… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I actually sewed my own wedding dress and I sewed my flower girl dresses. — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I dropped chemistry because there was a cute boy, and I figured out if I dropped chemistry, I would be in his drama class. — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
