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achievement bereavement comforting
And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go. Tom Lehrer
achievement business cold err fathers happiness husbands inhuman life love loving men
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere. Smiley Blanton
california addiction los-angeles
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. Carrie Fisher
district ways
Our district will be really tough. We still have a ways to go, and we want to be ready. Lynn McDonald
highway joke saw saying sign simple suggestion
As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy! ![]()
high pay people price willing
It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious, Charles Peabody
high lots low sings soprano work
As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work. Anna Netrebko
reading practice scripts
I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well. Bella Thorne
reading writing thinking
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances. John Taylor Gatto
reading writing different
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. Margaret Mahy
reading soul rendezvous
Reading is a rendezvous with your soul. Jeanette Winterson
reading blood mind
You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood, Jeaniene Frost
reading upset-stomach knitting
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns. J. K. Rowling
reading literature university
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature. Grace Paley
reading working-together together
I really like reading about how families work together. Sara Shepard
reading two parent
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom. Samuel West
school offering research
...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are. David Christian
school people community
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. Alice Hoffman
school heart broken
Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn Andy Partridge
school catholic generations
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote. Cillian Murphy
school discipline hated
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. Alfie Allen
school horror testing
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole. Alfie Kohn
school sacrifice what-matters
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores. Alfie Kohn
school kids differences
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen. Alfie Kohn
school house tests
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered. Alfie Kohn
similarly
For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world. Madhur Bhandarkar
students
If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested. Willie Smith