Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Margo Dewkett

And their first instinctual reaction is to flee. Everything we do in education is to teach the horse to stop, stand still You're in doubt, stand still.

Bill Rogers

The secret to not getting scammed and successfully getting a timeshare is all in the educational process prior to purchasing. It eliminates about 90 percent of the problems with timesharing.

Thomas Gregory

The move toward longer kindergarten, I think, encourages deterioration of parents involved in the education of the youngest of our children, I am not in favor of expanding (the concept) to all of Utah students.

William Strauss

The (old type) jobs are hard to get. What do you do if they fail to get a proper education?

Norman Augustine

The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade arithmetic.

Paul Gray

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Jack Germond

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

Dianne Cox

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Edythe Bagley

It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very special, and I knew it was serious. She said he reminded her of her father and there was no more to say. I looked upon him favorably and was impressed.

Irving Garcia

I used to watch my father play with his friends in Mexico. I loved watching him play.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Publius Tacitus

There will be vice as long as there are men

Ray Walston

I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it.

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Cate Blanchett

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

Michael Ignatieff

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.