Lauro Cavazos famous quotes

We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.
-- Lauro Cavazos

#Education #Today

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

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.

What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.