Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

Michael Jackson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

Phil McGraw

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Peter Medawar

In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.

Pete Seeger

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Pete Seeger

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

Pete Carroll

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

Pete Carroll

Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know whats going to happen next.

Paulo Coelho

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

Andy Serkis

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Andy Rooney

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ...

Andy Stanley

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

Andy Stanley

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Andy Stanley

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

Andy Stanley

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Andy Stanley

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

Andy Warhol

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.