Illiterate Quotes

Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate. D. B. Sweeney
Confession Country Signed Joe He Country Boy Read Boy Tragic Jackson Figure Who Serene Illiterate
Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. Elisabeth Shue
Today Books Later Intimidated Harvard Remain Lifelong Student Feel Adventure Over Come Like Most Read Still Years Person Being Where Transferred Realize Illiterate Ever
The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers. Gene Luen Yang
War Rebellion Soil Year Christian Other Starving Side Teenagers Allies Boxer Boxers Were Referred Chinese Japanese Poor Europeans Illiterate Fought Whom
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative. Godfrey Reggio
People Other Everything Collaborative Through Feel Like Talents Blind Deaf Real Effect Person Sensibilities Working Illiterate Multiple
If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate. Greg Mortenson
You Degrees Some Had Nobody Checked Look Mothers Educated Were Really Certainly Who Illiterate Even Nearly University
Football is probably the most democratic human activity. It belongs to everyone... to poor and rich, illiterate and educated, to all races, cultures, and nations. Haris Pasovic
Rich Everyone All Races Football Most Democratic Educated Cultures Human Human Activity Nations Poor Races Illiterate Activity Belongs
Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population. Ilan Stavans
Women Communicate Language Later Considered Eastern Eastern Europe Could Write Writers Longer Masses Years Yiddish Children Order Hebrew Century Realized Europe Illiterate Population Originally Needed
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. Jeffrey Archer
Today People Prison Entering Per Sixty Cent Illiterate
I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate. John McAfee
Government World Think Else Our Some About Seems More More Than Anything Hackers Greatest Than Lacks Just Anything Anything Else Illiterate Thing Technological Competence Here
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. John Sladek
Problem Language Alive Able Except Read Makes Privilege List Any Being Century Meaningless Illiterate
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Good People Care Will Made Nowadays Take Educational Hands Legislation Reproach Them Illiteracy Illiterate Largely
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves. Louis Leakey
People Kind Angola Badly Almost Schooling Majority Were Provided Very Any Paid Illiterate Treated Slaves
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down. Mary Karr
Me You People Three Control Pay Down Kid Broke No Control Pick Put Attention Feet Tall Terrifying Terror Snaps Up Unemployed Childhood Move Just Flat Awake Illiterate Keen
Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. Peter Greenaway
People Most Understand How Them Manufacture Illiterate Interpret Images
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate. Richard Flanagan
World Mining Town Come Island Were End End Of The World Tiny Grandparents Illiterate
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. Yanni
Music Writing Able Write Read Same Being Illiterate Speech
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