Quotes by Educators - Page 26

Melody.” His voice was a tormented whisper on his lips.“Yes,” I said.“If you ever need to escape, come to me.”“What?” I asked.“Just come. I won’t. . .I would never hurt you.”“But—”“You’re all that matters to me.
Kenya Wright
I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.
Ronald Rook
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen Chase
The pattern [of the crisis of the deeper life] seems to be self-centeredness, self-effort, increasing inner dissatisfaction and outer discouragement, a temptation to give it all up because there is no better way, and then finding the Spirit of God to be their strength, their guide, their confidence and companion--in a word, their life.
V. Raymond Edman
A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
William Bailey
There is nothing to fearFrom your reflection
Richard L. Ratliff
You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.
Ilchi Lee
Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit.
Paul Travis
Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!
Penny Kittle
Life is stranger than any of us expected,There is a somber, imponderable fate.Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.
Richard Eberhart
Our team was surprisingly consistent this year. We closed with a seven-seven record. We lost seven at home and seven on the road.
Steve Wheeler
If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan
[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
Sir Laurens van der Post
Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.
Alan Heathcock
[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.
Raymond S. Moore
Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda
The sign above the door was written in French. It read: ARRÊTE ! C’EST ICI L’EMPIRE DE LA MORT.“That means,” he explained to Gini, “‘Stop! It is here the Empire of Death.
Paul Aertker
When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.
Ilchi Lee
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
Johnny Rich
Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.
A.S. Neill
Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.
Johnny Rich
Consider everything an experiment.
Corita Kent
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius
Lay down, please.” Samuel’s voice stroked my ears like a man seducing his lover after they’d suffered a long absence.
Kenya Wright
The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he'll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he'll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food.
Glenn Doman
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Ken Robinson
When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
Warren Farrell
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.
R.A. Torrey
The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears.
Patricia V. Davis
It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with one hand we clingTo the familiar things we call our own,And with the other, resolute of will,Grope in the dark for what the day will bring
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.
Jon Scieszka
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.
Thomas Arnold
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially it takes over your spirit.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in the sky,Iskander's banner fly,The Black Eagle with double head;And a shout ascends on high,For men's souls are tired of the Turks,And their wicked ways and works,That have made of Ak-HissarA city of the plague;And the loud, exultant cryThat echoes wide and farIs: "Long live Scanderbeg!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The wrought-iron gate squeaked as Lucas opened it. He lowered the rented bike down the stone steps and onto the sidewalk. To his right was the most famous Globe Hotel in Paris, disguised under another name. In front of the entrance five Curukians sat on mopeds. Lu-cas and his eighteen-month-old friend then shot out across the street and through the invisible beam of an-other security camera.He rode diagonally across the place de la Concorde and headed toward the river. It seemed only natural. The motorcycles trailed him. He pedaled fast across the Alex-andre III bridge and zipped past Les Invalides hospital. He tried to turn left at the Rodin Museum, but Goper rode next to him, blocking his escape.
Paul Aertker
When Sean died she understood for the first time how completely human beings were dependent upon a suspension of disbelief in order to simply move forward through their days. If that suspension faltered, if you truly understood, even if only for a moment, that human beings were made of bones and blood that broke and sprayed with the slightest provocation, and that provocation was everywhere--in street curbs and dangling tree limbs, bicycles and pencils--well you would fly for the first nest in a tree, run flat-out for the first burrow you saw.
Erica Bauermeister
The oaks along the ridge were writhing like tortured epileptics in the winds, and she could make out through the thick rain a cascade of water like a cataract come roiling down the inside slope toward her; a vast arching spray exploded bright against the dark sky as the Gulf slammed over the chenier.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.
Kim John Payne
The world truly is my oyster, the difficulty is... I haven't discovered the ALL of the tools to shuck it yet.
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself.
Ilchi Lee
There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic W. Farrar
Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.
Ilchi Lee
Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A stylized sun and moon, joined by a horizontal bar, floated above a country divided in two by a river that snaked between them.
Alan McCluskey
Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)
Erin Gruwell
Here the sky is wrapped in silk. The breathings of so many men and animals, and the smoke of your coal, and the fog, oh, it is too much. The Paris sky is perfect. A man must see clearly, to see something new.
John Pipkin
If then the question is put to me whether I would rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.
Thomas Henry Huxley
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
Charles Swindoll
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Parker J. Palmer
When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.
Charles R. Swindoll
Thank You is a great thing to share... If a situation brings Gratitude to mind, then a heart felt Thank You is a great way to express it.
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Enmeshed in collective hatred and anger, each side proclaims the crimes of the other and its own righteousness, is unable to listen to the others suffering, and cannot look at the deeper roots of the conflict and how we often need our enemies in order to maintain our rigid identities. (p. 53)
Donald Rothberg
Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.
William Alexander
As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.
Paulo Freire
Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.
Kent Alan Robinson
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
Jane Nelsen