“I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.” StatesSchoolCitiesCollegePleaseMembersPreparedJerseyFamily MembersJersey City Author:Derek Luke
“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.” KnowsYearsSchoolCitiesCompanyTeacherNew YorkVictimSellingNew York CityEngineersEquipmentPublic SchoolJerseyNew JerseySchool SystemLayoffFiltration Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.” WritingSchoolGirlVoiceCitiesCollegeInvolvedOrganizationFamiliarPairsRatiosInner CityUnderprivilegedGreat OrganizationsInner City Schools Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.” YearsSchoolSocialCitiesCareersStudyTeachingHigh SchoolYears AgoRetiredSocial StudiesInner CityYounger SisterTeaching History Author:Judy Woodruff
“I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.” KindArtSchoolSidesCitiesNew YorkDramaHigh SchoolProgramPerformingDepartmentNew York CityPublic SchoolJuniorsJunior HighPerforming ArtsHappenstance Author:Merritt Wever
“I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.” WorldFeelsBookCharacterShowsSchoolGirlCitiesNew YorkCollegeBrownGossipNew York CityReluctantYaleNyuGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!” PeopleBigsSchoolCitiesHigh SchoolMovedTinyVillageBig CitiesVermont Author:Daphne Zuniga
“TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.” TryingYearsSchoolCitiesFourHigh SchoolFour YearsMayors Author:Jenny Holzer
“My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.” KnowsSchoolUsedGuyCitiesBrotherHigh SchoolMy BrotherThis DayLobbyists Author:Jake M. Johnson
“There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,' .. There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.” IfsWantNeedsChildrenSchoolCitiesTeachFailingConsequenceTitlesInner City Author:Karl Rove
“After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.” FirstsWellsSchoolCitiesAchievementPrimariesGradesAcademicFortePrimary SchoolStellarAcademic AchievementPenmanship Author:Vernon L. Smith
“HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit. LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her. HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.” WayMayMeanCountrySchoolLawYoungSpiritTurnsGirlChurchCitiesBreakFineCitizensHonorLettersSatisfiedHelpfulVillageLoyalSimplestGiverDependable Author:Juliette Gordon Low
“We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.” PeopleLongSaidEnoughBodySchoolGirlCitiesOur LivesLowsDiedLaysMissionsMapsMailBurnedThey SaidMedalCasualtiesBombers Author:Randall Jarrell
“Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenWarGovernmentSchoolStrongCitiesCasesMilitaryObjectsDutyBearsCitizensFitAuthorityDevilDearObligationRulersRiflesSpearsStrong ManMilitary Service Author:Martin Luther
“I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.” PeopleWayWantDoneHelpingSchoolCommunityCitiesRight NowSafeDignityShiningCleanWelfareNeighborhoodDelayWork To Be DoneRepairingWelfare RecipientsDignity And Strength Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.” KnowsWantStatesDreamRunningSchoolAmericaInterestPartyCitiesHalfFailingSpecialStudentsMajorsShotsDemocraticIncludingAfrican AmericanDeniedAmerican DreamDemocratic PartyPublic ServiceSpecial InterestsHispanicBigotsSchool SystemInner City Author:David Horowitz
“I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they'll show up or not, I don't know. That depneds upon many factors.” KnowsGivingFeelsFirstsI CanShowsSchoolWaitingCitiesBuddhismFactorsLecturesRamaBecause I Can Author:Frederick Lenz
“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.” PeopleHomeSchoolNextCitiesPositionWeaponsAreasCommandPostsHospitalsFiringMosquesStorageHamas Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!” HomeSchoolStuffCitiesBreakMillionsTaxesAskingPoliceFundExecutivesOfficersBorrowedPolice OfficerKansasForfeitTax BreaksKansas CityPublic MoneyFree Stuff Author:Jennifer Granholm
“If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.” IfsWorldSchoolReligionWealthPrayerCitiesSawsWallKingsWorshipLettersTheatreTemplesCoinsTraverse Author:Plutarch
“My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidDifferentSchoolTogetherLawStuffCitiesCrazyMy FriendsMailSiteThey SaidBuddyLaw SchoolLove To Read Author:Tucker Max
“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsSaidCountrySchoolYoungSongActorsFoundVoiceCitiesAirSeaProgramFolksRadioGrandmotherIntroducingSailorCrackedFolk MusicGreat CountryYoung ActorsBanjosYour GrandmotherFolk Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f—ing Mercedes. You better f—ing believe it.” WayYearsBelieveI CanKidsSchoolFacesHouseDarkCitiesMorningGoneDegreesDaughterSittingDriversTake MeBusEvery MorningSmellyUptownCity Bus Author:Louis C. K.
“I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.” StatesPlaySchoolCitiesPlayerBasketballHigh SchoolLettersBaseballQuarterbackBaseball PlayerWashington State Author:Ryne Sandberg
“Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.” SchoolChoicesCitiesRightsNew YorkGayVoteUnionsFavorsBordersChampionAbortionNew York CityGay MarriageGay RightsRudyPro AbortionSchool Choice Author:James Dobson
“I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was Detroit Rock City. I heard it in the school library, where I lived.” FirstsSchoolCitiesHeardRocksKissingLibraryDetroitSchool Library Author:Brian Posehn
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.” WayGivingChildrenKidsSchoolLife IsFightingCitiesImpossibleConditionsSubjectsTvsBirthInternetDrinkEssentialsFemaleMotherhoodAdvertisingDecentFulfilledAssaultViciousPrecariousAccommodations Author:Virginie Despentes
“By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.” WantedSchoolCitiesNew YorkCollegeHigh SchoolMovedAdvertisingAgencyNew York CityGraduatesMassachusettsAdvertising Agencies Author:Cynthia Voigt
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in life. And then I would start to look at architectural magazines and I eventually went to the school of architecture too, but one of the things I learned very early is that an architect should be able to design anything from a spoon to the city.” ShouldYearsLooksAbleSchoolCitiesDesignArchitectureMagazinesArchitectSpoonsArchitecture And Design Author:Massimo Vignelli
“My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.” CharacterSchoolYoungPurposeThreeFatherCitiesWorstMilitaryTaughtDisciplineDrugWeaponsCleanBlockGangDealerTaught UsSpecialistsKarateAffinityDrug DealersRadius Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.” KindStatesHelpingWould BeSchoolGirlMemoriesUnitedEffortCitiesBoysUnited StatesTaughtCapableHonorableMemorialMonumentLivelihoodGreat Cities Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.” MindHandsKidsSchoolJobsRememberEasyCitiesTeacherTeachingInspireAmountHigh SchoolTasksResponsibleTeenagerRemember YouRemembers YouInner CityEasy TasksMind BogglingInner City Schools Author:Tony Danza
“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school” ShouldChildrenSchoolGirlPoorPowerfulCitiesBoysRichTownsNobleVillageRich And PoorBoy And GirlIgnobleActive MindsCities And Towns Author:John Amos Comenius
“I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.” YearsChildrenSchoolFallCitiesSummerShoesWoodsShopsWild Child Author:Margaret Atwood
“The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.” YearsSchoolCitiesHigh SchoolBridgesKansasKansas City Author:Jason Wiles
“I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own.” SchoolMy OwnCitiesFashionNew YorkDecidedMagazinesEditorsSensibleAccessoriesKansasStylishHandbagsKansas City Author:Kate Spade
“Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.” KidsSchoolMovingCitiesMiddleIncomeDistributionProspectsMoving UpIncome Distribution Author:Raj Chetty
“I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.” WellsSchoolNextBornCitiesLandDadHigh SchoolHorseRaisedMy DadGuidancePreacherPigsFarmingCropsCattleCounselorBarnsBorn And RaisedNebraskaGuidance Counselor Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more than 5 million girls cannot go to school. It's become an open secret. In some big cities they build schools to deceive people around the world, while the level of education remains very low, and even when they can go to school there is no security.” PeopleWorldBigsSchoolJobsGirlLevelsSecretCitiesMillionsSecurityLowsRemainsAccessAround The WorldDeceivingPakistanBig CitiesJobs And Education Author:Malalai Joya
“As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.” PeopleCountrySchoolIndividualCitiesIssuesTeachingAwarenessEducationalUsaClassroomRaising Awareness Author:Wendy Kopp
“You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.” KnowsWayLittlesStillsDifferentSchoolCitiesCreativityMusicianQueensDifferent WaysJerseyBrooklynManhattan Author:Chick Corea
“Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.” ThinkingHumansKindEndsWholeHelpingBodySchoolOrderTermCitiesPiecesAliveComfortableConceptsStructureWholenessHuman BodyLiteralWhole FamilyDubiousSated Author:Carrie Brownstein
“Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.” PeopleSometimesSchoolJobsCitiesCollegeDegreesHigh SchoolBrokeDiplomaCollege DegreeHigh School Diploma Author:Rachel Grady
“Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.” IfsWorldArtStatesSchoolWinningUnitedCitiesModernFineExcellenceExtraordinaryLibraryUniversityKingdomsReputationPainterPrizeBoastGalleryCathedralsModern ArtUnited KingdomArt GalleriesAlumniNorwichPrize Winning Author:Stephen Fry