Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William James

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

William James

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

Will Ferrell

I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

Will Durant

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

Sarah Palin

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

Sara Zarr

and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

Richard Gilman

I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.

Rusty Brown

The only thing I would do differently is, I might make the great room wider and longer. When we do get a ton of people up here, this room is full - but that's like designing a church for Easter Sunday.

Edward McKendree Bounds

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Steve Sexton

It is a joy each year to see the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs through the eyes of talented young students.

Kiaran McLaughlin

It gets more like Churchill ( Downs ) all the time.

Roger Mahony

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.

Dick Vitale

I went to church and Jim and his wife, Liz, went to see the home.

Bernard Ebbers

I want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

Paul McGee

He was getting more horses and more clients, and he was winning races. He had a good Churchill meet, and things were really picking up for him. It's really a shame.

Steve Jones

I do not see it as a substitute for going to church. People go to church to congregate with other people.

Maggie Gallagher

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently formed a task force to struggle with how to deal with pro-choice Catholic politicians.

Lee Swislow

All of the homes were good and loving homes and now through the pressure of the bishops Catholic Charities is being forced to get out of the business. There are no winners here. The children are the ones who suffer.

Roger Mahony

We bishops got ourselves and the church into this problem, so I can understand that, and I have no problem with that whatsoever. None.

Jim Post

We've learned to say 'No' to bishops here in Boston.

Frank Butler

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

Frances Kissling

We launched Condoms4Life to educate young Catholics, as well as gay and straight couples, about what we think our faith demands of us: Responsibility. We see St. Valentine's Day, a day representing love and passion for many couples, as the perfect time to remind people that the culture of life means affirming responsible and just sexual behavior-especially for those who are at risk of contracting AIDS. We call on the bishops to join us in this campaign to promote a culture of life and protect the lives and health of the countless men, women and children who are at risk of HIV/AIDS.

Richard Neuhaus

There can be little doubt that over the centuries that there have been great priests, bishops - and maybe even popes - who by today's criterion would be deemed homosexual in orientation, ... It's not the nature of one's temptations - be they sexual or something else - it's how to deal with these temptations.