Education quotes

“- Susan Price: Your tongue is sharper than a guillotine, Fanny.
- Fanny Price: The effect of education, I suppose.”
Sophia Myles - Susan Price
Frances O'Connor - Fanny Price

“- Mr. Evans: Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse. And they let in every tailor's son... and every farmer's daughter in that country.
- Jack Bull Chiles: Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer. Or a gun either.”
Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans
Skeet Ulrich - Jack Bull Chiles

“Careers and higher education are leading to the masculinization of women, with enormously dangerous consequences to the home, the children, and our country. When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to?”
Laurel Cronin - Maida Gillespie

“You know, you're not too over-educated to get a punch in the nose.”
Tony Roberts - Maxwell

“- Rhodes: What the fuck is wrong with you people? They're dead! They're fucking dead, and you want to teach them tricks?
- Logan: They have to be rewarded, Captain. Why else will they do what we want them to do?
- Rhodes: I don't want 'em to do anything but drop over!
- Logan: Yes, well, apparently they're not inclined to do that for you, Captain.”

Joseph Pilato - Rhodes
Richard Liberty - Logan

“- Ned: I worry about money, just like everybody else.
- Lenny Brown: But you got some backstops. You start falling down that well, you got some slats across to catch yourself, right? You got your professor-father. You got an education. You got the Financial Journal. You can't fall too far. My old man's an ex-printer on disability! My mother is a...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Rothman - Ned
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“Discipline. That's what fathers believe in. We must spank the children immediately before they try to kill you again. In fact, we should kill them.”
Jeremy Sumpter - Peter Pan

“All these kids, they're all tv babies. Watching people killing and fucking each other on the boob tube for so long it's all they know. Hell, they think it's legal. They think it's the right thing to do.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“- Principal Mazur: Your son caused the entire student body to break into a riotous frenzy!
- Goofy: Riot? It couldn't be my...
- Principal Mazur: If I were you, Mr. Goof, I'd seriously re-evaluate the way you're raising your child before he ends up in the electric chair!”
Wallace Shawn - Principal Mazur
Bill Farmer - Goofy

“Eve never says no to learning!”
Tyra Banks - Eve

“Right now, I'm going to another restaurant record: longest burp.”
Adam Sandler - Davey

“It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you.”

Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“[referring to the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign]
- Woodrow F. Call: And if that ain't bad enough you got all them Greek words on there, too.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: I told you, Woodrow, a long time ago it ain't Greek, it's Latin.
- Woodrow F. Call: Well what does it say in Latin?
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: Well, it's a motto. It just says itself...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tommy Lee Jones - Woodrow F. Call
Robert Duvall - Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

“When you start killing for a dream, you usually end up killing the dream too. That's what hell is, watching your dreams die. Your education will set you free.”
Robert Hooks - King David

“- Cho Osaki: I told you not to fight.
- Grandmother: Do not yell at him. He did no wrong.
- Cho Osaki: I did not bring him here to America to fight in the streets with fools.”

Shô Kosugi - Cho Osaki
Grace Oshita - Grandmother Osaki

“- David Jacobs: My father taught us not to lie.
- Jack Kelly: Well, mine told me not to starve; so we both have an education.”
David Moscow - David Jacobs
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“- Lieutenant Charles Pizer: V.I.N.CENT., were you programmed to bug me?
- V.I.N.CENT.: No, sir, to educate you.”
Joseph Bottoms - Lieutenant Charles Pizer
Roddy McDowall - V.I.N.CENT.

“- Bo: Anybody on this bus got a college education?
- Lily Ramsey: I do; just graduated in June.
- Bo: Good. Then you can get up and get us a beer.”

Bee Spears - Bo
Amy Irving - Lily Ramsey

- Calvin "Cal" Jarrett: Some things happen in this world, people don't always have the answers for them, you know! I don't know what I'm yelling at you for.
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: No, that's good! Haul my ass sometimes! You know, the way you used to do with him!
- Calvin "Cal" Jarrett: Oh, he needed it! You were always so hard on yourself, I... (continue)(continue reading)

Donald Sutherland - Calvin
Timothy Hutton - Conrad

“This here's the TV. Two hours a day, maximum, either... either educational or football, so's, y'know, you don't ruin your appreciation of the finer things.”
Nicolas Cage - H.I. McDunnough

“My family raised me and send me to school and feed me and all that other stuff my friends didn't do. Besides, who cares about my launch!”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“I'd like a chance to shoot at an educated man once in my life.”
Robert Duvall - Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

“- Tommy Judd: Barclay confiscated another torch last night.
- Guy Bennett: How many is that?
- Tommy Judd: Twelve. Twelve torches taken away to stop me getting the education I'm supposed to be here for.”
Colin Firth - Tommy Judd
Rupert Everett - Guy Bennett

“- Marlene 'Marl' Craven: Cancel my morning.
- Marlene's Assistant: But you have a showing! What do I tell them?
- Marlene 'Marl' Craven: You have a Harvard education, make something up!”
Julianne Moore - Marlene Craven
Tom Francis - Marlene's Assistant

“Hello gang, welcome to Sex Education. If you aren't registered for this course or are a Southern Baptist, you're in the wrong room.”
David Herman - Mr. Lowelle