Evelyn Boyd Granville famous quotes

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
-- Evelyn Boyd Granville

#Mean #Rise Above #Accepted

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.
-- Evelyn Boyd Granville

#Always Smile #Mathematics

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

Rise above principal and do what's right.

This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.