I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
Alonzo Mourning
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. -
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it. -
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable. -
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy. -
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
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- There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.
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- I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.