Me Quotes

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

~ Édith Piaf

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

~ Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

~ Eric Idle

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

~ Quincy Jones

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

~ Adam Weishaupt

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

~ Michael Moore

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

~ Maya Angelou

It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

~ Frederick William Faber

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

~ Tyson Fury

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

~ Mildred S. Dresselhaus

Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling years. But apart from that, there were no friends or no long term associations. That was the only thing I knew was with me wherever I went.

~ Nimrat Kaur

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

~ Tyler Hamilton

I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

~ Jack O'connell

Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you're thrown in with and have to work with, is that I'm grounded.

~ Andie Macdowell

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

~ Jerry Lewis

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

~ Muhammad Yunus

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

~ Charles Kuralt

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

~ Clay Aiken

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

~ Antony Gormley

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

~ Mark Teixeira

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

~ Muriel Spark

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

~ Archimedes

Once you label me you negate me.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

~ Nelson Mandela

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

~ Nikolai Gogol

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

~ John Wycliffe

Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church.

~ Sheri L. Dew

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

~ Chuck Noll

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

~ Ben Carson

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

~ Sarah Kay

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

~ Timothy Noah

At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.

~ Peter Capaldi

I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.

~ Missy Elliott

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

~ Ben Carson

There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.

~ Bryce Dallas Howard

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

~ Kapil Sibal