Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Ma

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

Brooke Przekurat

I want to learn a lot of new stuff over the summer and come back and show it off again.

James Wolpert

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.

Catrina Cormell

It will give (participants) a sense of how to really operate. They'll learn about pricing and how to market what they want to sell.

John McEwen

They did it and responded to each other doing it. They learn from each other and get challenged. They have a lot to say, and we need to listen to them.

Aaron Nieckula

They are young men and they have to learn how to respond to tough losses like that.

Jan Wright

They learn the value of volunteering. It's not always about making money.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

They learn in suffering what they teach in song

Andy Baker

They will learn what music is supposed to sound like.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Charles Spurgeon

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song,

Dean Wareham

Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

Bruce Cockburn

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

Adam Jones

I've never worried about how long the song is.

Jenny Phillips

Every song is different. Every song comes in a different way. Some songs will come in a day and some will take two years to write.

Norah Jones

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Noel Gallagher

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

Dorothea Benton Frank

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

Horace

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Jean de La Fontaine

Better to suffer than to die.

Gregory David Roberts

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

Ignatius of Loyola

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Horace

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Gloria Allred

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Ama Ata Aidoo

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Alfred North Whitehead

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

Dr. Seuss

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

Dean Norris

When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.

Amos Lee

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Anna Quindlen

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

Cillian Murphy

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

Ann Richards

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.