“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.” MadeImportantSchoolLiteratureInterestingClassEnvironmentTeacherHigh SchoolEnjoyedInteractionEnglish Literature Author:Ellen Ochoa
“Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.” MindMadeImportantKidsLastsValuesCoursesParentForgetClassFiguresAuthoritySuitsStrongestGymCaptainsMoldingGym ClassMaroon Book:Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.” ThinkingWayHeartImportantSchoolTurnsSpeakLanguageClassCuttingMusic IsCrossesVicesObservationGrantedBordersVice Versa Author:Dan Rather
“I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.” BelieveImportantKidsYoungGirlPowerfulOpinionClassEnvironmentUnattractive Author:Megyn Kelly
“My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.” MenImportantFatherPoorRaceClassPossessionBritishPoor Man Author:Sidney Poitier
“It doesn't matter if it's in my class or around the world, anywhere, the first thing I say is "First of all guys, I want to give my Heavenly Father credit for all I do and the Lord Jesus Christ to give me the opportunity to go out and reach and save lives." To me, that's the most important thing.” IfsWorldWantGivingFirstsImportantMatterGuyFatherOpportunityJesusChristLordClassJesus ChristGive MeImportant ThingsCreditAround The WorldHeavenlyHeavenly FatherLord Jesus ChristSave A Life Author:Billy Blanks
“The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society” MadeImportantIndividualClassPolicyBirthAvailableBirth ControlClasses Of Society Author:Frederick Osborn
“Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.” PeopleStillsImportantStatesWholeGovernmentUsedSocialClassTakenModernMovementAuthorityOrganizationAimIgnorantConfusionFactorsGreekDisorderThinkerAnarchyWarfareDesirableAdoptedAdversariesAnarchism Author:Errico Malatesta
“It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.” ImportantClassMiddleMaterialsProductsHigherDemandResourcesServantMiddle ClassEfficientClasses Of Society Author:Thomas Malthus
“If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.” IfsWantShouldImportantWarLostClassSkillsInequalitySubtletyLost Ones Author:Maurice Cowling