"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."

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Source : "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

Margaret Spellings

#Respect Quotes #Children Quotes #School Quotes

“I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?”
“We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.”
“When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.”
“I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.”
“Desperate times call for desperate analogies.”

Source : Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2007). “The Whispered Secret”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
“We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.”
“Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.”

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