Oprah Winfrey Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Kids, Sneakers

• For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Teacher, Smart, School

• I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, School, World

• "Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Snow, Three

  Source: wwd.com

• The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Block, School, Secret

• I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Daughter, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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