Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Petersen

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

Marshall McLuhan

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Paul Thomson

We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.

Matt Taibbi

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Charles Dickens

Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Joseph Farrell

Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,

David Mitchell

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Dave Barry

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

Dave Barry

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

Dave Barry

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

Dave Barry

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

David Quammen

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

David Friedman

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Carrie Underwood

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.

Carl Rogers

An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.

Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Carl Rogers

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

Carl Sagan

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.