Ged Quotes

• If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.

  Wayne Knight

  Children, School, Kids

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• She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Want, Clarity, Obedience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tehanu”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Evil, Soul, Hard

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

  Chris Rock

  School, College, Years

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• I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

  Mary J. Blige

  Feel Good, Important, Want

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• Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

  Jeremy Bonderman

  Mom, Baseball, Dream

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• I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

  Ja Rule

  Strong, Book, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

  Michael J. Fox

  Book, Reading, Kids

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Diploma

  "Bring the Pain". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Moving, School

  Rick Santorum (2014). “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• What Habitat does is much more than just sheltering people. It’s what it does for people on the inside. It’s that intangible quality of hope. Many people without decent housing consider themselves life’s losers. This is the first victory they may have ever had. And it changes them. We see Habitat homeowners go back to school and get their GEDs, enter college, do all kinds of things they never believed they could do before they moved into their house. By their own initiative, through their own pride and hope, they change.

  Millard Fuller

  School, Pride, College

  Millard Fuller (1995). “Simple Decent Place to Live: The Building Realization of Habitat for Humanity”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

  Christian Slater

  Regret, School, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now if you not only support them through that pregnancy, but now provide childcare for them so they can go back to school and get their GED or their associate's degree or bachelor's degree or their master's degree, learn how to take care of themselves, teach their baby how to take care of themselves so that you break the cycle of the dependency.

  Benjamin Carson

  Baby, Pregnancy, School

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

  Eric Thomas

  School, Talking, Skills

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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• A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

  Jane Yolen

  Children, Book, Dark

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• Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Names, Giving

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fall, Clouds, Wind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Dark, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life Is, Fear Of Death, Said

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1975). “The farthest shore”, Puffin

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• With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis and brought together a number of topics often treated separately to inform a comprehensive discussion of the growth, character, and impact of the GED that is truly monumental. This is a first-rate book.

  Eric A. Hanushek

  Book, Character, Impact

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• I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.

  Jo Walton

  Growing Up, Real, People

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• If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kings, Queens, Children

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• Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Home, College

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