Arianna Huffington Quotes

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

Respect for education—the idea that education will buy improvement in our lives—is one of the oldest and fundamental American ideas.

I didn't collect my GCSEs. I didn't even do most of them.

I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

How you do in school determines how you do in life.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

My grandfather, Daddy Jeff, made me promise to him that even though I'm already an actress, I'd still finish school.

If I didn't finish high school, I would wonder about that part of my life.

When a kid says 'I'm in astrophysics at school because of your character' that's amazing to me.

I dropped out of school.

Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.

I'm the only member of my family who didn't get a PhD. So, I'm like the failure of the family, cause all I have is a bachelor's, like a drop out.

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.