Ann Cotton Quotes

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

Education liberates a woman.

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

When you've got education, you've got knowledge and power and confidence to go out in the world.

Education brings a sense of confidence and self-worth to yourself.

It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free.

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

Education is freedom.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.

Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.