Education quotes

“I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father: you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing.”
George Clooney - Matt King

“- Meenah Khan: Have you seen the state of them two? The one with the teeth's got a mustache like Dad.
- Maneer Khan: Tariq looks like Quasimodo.
- Ella Khan: Kids. Were your two like that, Mrs. Shah?
- Mrs. Shah: No. I believe in strict discipline. Especially in a non-Pakistani environment.”

Archie Panjabi - Meenah Khan
Emil Marwa - Maneer Khan
Linda Bassett - Ella Khan
Leena Dhingra - Mrs. Shah

“Only in America is having a higher education considered an insult.”
Laura Haddock - Vivian Wembley

You know, my momma... she always told me, 'Us Southerners get our good manners from the British.' So I was thinkin', "Ain't that a pity? Y'all ain't keepin' none for yourself". Y'all ain't ever heard of knockin' before you enter?
Channing Tatum - Tequila

“All the money I spent on your education, I was hoping for stronger competition.”

Harrison Ford - William Jones

“I don't like films with a 'message' and I think that 'entertainment' is the necessary element. You can get across a message and entertain the public at the same time and that's what is really important. ”
Blake Edwards

“We are in this business primarily to provide entertainment, but in doing so we do not dodge the issue if we can also provide enlightenment.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“The cultural environment in which one lives ought to be as important as the air he breathes, the food he eats.”
Željko Ivanek - Mr. Cleary

“Now, remember son: stay in school, eat your veggies, and burn everything but Shakespeare.”
Johnny Depp - Rango

“I report from the streets. I'm educating and keeping it real.”
Demetrius Shipp Jr. - Tupac

“- Tito: Hey, hey, hey! There is a lady, Francis.
- Georgette: Well, it's nice to see that one of you has some manners.
- Tito: After you, my little croissant.”
Cheech Marin - Tito
Bette Midler - Georgette

“When I was a kid, my dad was on the road a lot. He would give me a box full books, call me every night and quiz me. I'd get an ice cream cone for every book I read, so I was a fat kid.”

Chiwetel Ejiofor - Adrian Helmsley

“Education doesn't make you happy. And what is freedom? We don't become happy just because we are free, if we are. Or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“[Education] Convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever: that of the mind. And give us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

“Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it.”
Charmion King - Aunt Josephine

“- Amy Grady: Didn't your mother teach you to wash your hands after you went to the bathroom?
- Bobby Grady: Nope, she taught me not to piss on my fingers.”
Annie Potts - Amy Grady
John Laughlin - Bobby Grady

“You know, I admit I may not be the best mother in the world, but I'm doing the best I know how, and he doesn't need you to rub his face in shit because you think it's good for him! He's gonna find out that the world is a horrible place and that people suck soon enough and without any help from you!”

Laura Linney - Sammy

“I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”
Robin Williams - John Keating

“If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?”
Drew Barrymore - Danielle

“Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.”

James Stewart - Jefferson Smith

“Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.”
Victoria Wood

Nobody calls men "men" anymore. Have you noticed? Women went from "girls" to "women."Men went from "men" to "boys?" This is a problem in the big picture.
Anne Hathaway - Jules

“The greatest hoax in the history of institutionalized education is the myth of the permanent record.”
Trevor Fehrman - Handsome

We were always told we could be anything, do anything. And I think guys got, maybe not left behind, but not quite as nurtured, you know? I mean, like, we were the generation of "you go, girl."We had Oprah. And I wonder sometimes how guys fit in, you know? They still seem to be trying to figure it out. They're still dressing like little boys.... (continue)(continue reading)
Anne Hathaway - Jules