Education quotes

“We must have the attitude that every child in America, regardless where raised, can learn.”

Josh Brolin - George W. Bush

“- Ann Butterfield: Are we saving her for someone rich?
- Hugh Butterfield: God damn it. That's not fair. The girl is fifteen years old. Now when is she gonna study, when is she gonna sleep?
- Ann Butterfield: Come on. You're the one that's always saying she's sleeping too much. I know it's difficult, but aren't you happy that she has someone?...” (continue)(continue reading)

Shirley Knight - Ann Butterfield
Don Murray - Hugh Butterfield

“Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.”
Mako

“- Frank Beardsley: Occasionally. A little pat on the butt sends a clear message.
- Helen North: Well you're not spanking my children.
- Frank Beardsley: I thought they were our children.
- Helen North: You're not spanking our children.
- Frank Beardsley: Okay, fine. Let's just let them all run naked and wild.”
Dennis Quaid - Frank Beardsley
Rene Russo - Helen North

“I understand I've got a larned nigger that writes letters and tries to get white fellows to mail them.”
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“- Sincere: Yo, when's the last time you read anything, man?
- Tommy 'Buns' Bundy: Never, motherfucker.”
Nas - Sincere
DMX - Tommy 'Buns' Bundy

“I never went to film school but I got a lot of education from commercials and I really put in enough hours not to be in any way afraid of the camera.”
Isabel Coixet

“The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.”
Richard Charles Hastings Eyre

“In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.”
Mark Waters

“I was raised to be super polite.”
Paul Weitz

“I had a History degree, in University, I didn't quite know how to make a living at that.. .and so I went through law school and I got it and practised for a couple of years and I just hated it. ”
Kevin Reynolds

- Warren Blake: Have you ever noticed the number of things dad is capable of expressing just with the word "fuck"?
- Belle Blake: Trying to say dad is illiterate?
- Warren Blake: No, I mean he's a good old boy, so you know he talks to be understood, not just to sound good.
John D'Leo - Warren Blake
Dianna Agron - Belle Blake

“- Sara Crewe: Thank you.
- Miss Minchin: Sara, there's no talking at the table.
- Sara Crewe: Doesn't seem natural.
- Miss Minchin: I won't say it again.”

Liesel Matthews - Sara Crewe
Eleanor Bron - Miss Minchin

“His ass was the grass and I was the lawnmower.”

Estelle Getty - Tutti

“Education leads to freedom. Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville!”
Robert Hooks - King David

“You'd think educating children would be more of a priority in this country but you'd be wrong. Government's got better things to spend our money on, like corporate handouts and building bombs.”
Frances Sternhagen - Irene Reppler

“- Ellie: He blames you for everything that's wrong with me. He says you, you raised me stupidly.
- Andrews: [sarcastically] Well now, that's a fine man to fall in love with.”

Claudette Colbert - Ellie
Walter Connolly - Andrews

“I got a PHD. A poser hater degree.”
Jamie Kennedy - Brad 'B-Rad' Gluckman

“- Reiter: I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.
- Amon Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!”
Elina Löwensohn - Diana Reiter
Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth

“Tray, I don't want you hangin' out in the streets. I want you to finish school, 'cause without an education the only kind of work you're gonna get is sellin' drugs, pimpin' women, or workin' security for Eddie Murphy.”
Vivica A. Fox - Ashtray's Mother

“It's easier to shoot a gun than it is to read a book. It's easier to take a man's life than it is to educate him and teach him about life. It's easier to hate than it is to love. The revolution I'm talking about is a revolution of the mind and the spirit. And education, that's the key.”
Robert Hooks - King David

- Shaun: As Bertrand Russell once said, "The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation”. I think we can all appreciate the relevance of that now.
- Liz: Was that on a beer mate?
- Shaun: Yeah, it was Guinness Extra Cold.
- Liz: I won't say anything.
- Shaun: Thanks.
Simon Pegg - Shaun
Kate Ashfield - Liz

“- Jeff Kohlver: You and your mom are both wacked?
- Hayley Stark: There's that whole nature versus nurture question, isn't it? Was I born a cute, vindictive, little bitch or did society make me that way? I go back and forth on that.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- John Hull: David, come on. Take your feet off the couch. You don't do that at your mother's house, do you?
- David Jason: Nouveau anal, I think this is called.”
Laurence Fishburne - John Hull
Jeff Goldblum - David Jason

“I was raised a strict Southern Baptist. I place a high value on human life... $20,000 minimum.”
Jerry Reed - Jack Locke