Marriage can wait, education cannot.
Interpretation
Education is a priority that should be pursued before marriage.
This quote emphasizes the importance of education as a foundational aspect of life that should be prioritized over societal expectations such as marriage. Khaled Hosseini suggests that acquiring knowledge and skills is essential for personal development and future opportunities, indicating that once education is completed, other aspects of life, like marriage, can be pursued without hindrance.
In practice
During a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of pursuing education.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
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