Laura Bush Quotes

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.

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

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

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

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.

We talk a good fight about wanting to have excellent schools when in fact we're content to have average ones.

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

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

Education deserves particular focus because its effects are so long-lasting.