Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Cherry Hill

an elderly person/couple or woman with young children.

The Archives

an opportunity to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.

Barbara Boxer

A proposed rule on human pesticide testing that fails to protect children and families should be shelved immediately. A protective rule must be issued in its place,

Alice Moore

These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to all children they come in contact with. The Archdiocese has an obligation to minimize or eradicate that threat.

Barbara Boxer

These measures are all about a power grab by Gov. Schwarzenegger that hurts our children, our schools and our teachers.

Jean Richter

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun

William Schaffner

the stunning fact that children 6 to 23 months old, if they get influenza, have the same high rate of hospitalization as adults 65 years and older.

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Sydney Smith

A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!!!

Jane Austen

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Boris Johnson

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Dennis Prager

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Ben Jonson

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

Lutfullah Mashal

We know that he has been killed, but do not know whether it was because of personal hostility or because he once had joined the Taliban,

Paul Saffo

The problem has not been hostility to technology; the problem has been big egos.

Bill Vickroy

If we win, we would host it Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., after gymnastics.

Jitin Prasada

I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

Lisa Jakub

You never know how much time you have with someone.

Jon Stewart

I have a lot of hostility.

Greg Rosenblum

There was shouting. There was hostility during the deliberation. There was adamant disagreement, but ultimately everyone respected everyone else's point of view.

Charlie Hunnam

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

Ross Mathews

I'd love to host a game show one day. I love giving things away.

Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Nancy Merrill

We want students working together, learning from each other. We have wonderful role models.

Arthur C. Clarke

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Dave Ramsey

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.

Aubrey Peeples

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Dave Bautista

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

Andy Rooney

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

Andre Braugher

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Jamie Hyneman

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Jascha Heifetz

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

Janos Bolyai

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Blaise Pascal

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Blaise Pascal

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Aristotle

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Cory Doctorow

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Audie Murphy

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Jan Karon

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.