Martin O'Malley Quotes

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.

Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.

Education is the social bedrock for the hopes and dreams of our children and the foundation that is necessary for their future prosperity.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

School is very important to my family.

I liked money more than going to school.

I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid's education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

For their [the children’s] learning, be liberal. Spare no cost, for by such parsimony all is lost that is saved

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.