James McBride Quotes

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

Education is not so important as people think.

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

Education is the greatest factor in the upward climb of any person or people.

Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth…

Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it.

A great education is a passport to a new life

…it is only after our physical and political needs are supplied, and when we are free from necessary duties and cares, that we are in a condition for desiring to see, to hear, and to learn.

Great is the study that brings us into action.

The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a different kind. Builders in the way most American families are. They used whatever tools they had - whatever God gave them - and whatever life in America provided - and built better lives and better futures for their kids.

America is still the land of opportunity, and hard work is still a pathway to success.

I believe in the promise of America, which is if you work hard, you do better for yourselves, and you dream bigger for kids.

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

If you want to earn more - learn more.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

Of course. You get everything from books.