01c. 1964 ADIt wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
02c. 1964 ADAs a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
03c. 1964 ADOur life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
04c. 1964 ADYou have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
05c. 1964 ADThrough my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
06c. 1964 ADPublic education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
07c. 1964 ADSuccess is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
08c. 1964 ADWhether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
09c. 1964 ADThe difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
10c. 1964 ADYou don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
11c. 1964 ADWe need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president - and the president alone - who always makes the final call.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
12c. 1964 ADI remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
13c. 1964 ADIf my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.Michelle Obama / quote ↗
