"My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Michelle Rhee

#Successful Quotes #Parent Quotes #Way Quotes

“I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.”
“There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.”
“Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.”
“The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.”
“So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!”

Source : FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Apr 23, 2013
“The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote”
“We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.”
“What great changes have not been ambitious?”

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