Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive James

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

Philip Roth

Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

John Woolman

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

Aaron Eckhart

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

Ezra Taft Benson

Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said about the Constitution and the threats to it?

Chris Kyle

I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosity—if you don’t satisfy it, you’re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when they’re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. I’ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. There’s nothing I like better than shooting.

Jean Piaget

The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

Christina Hoff Sommers

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Anthony Hopkins

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

Rumi

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Spike Milligan

God made nightButMan made darkness.

George W. Bush

To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

John H. Morgan

This is very serious and it is uncorroborated we are very concerned.

Jon Gruden

It is right now a sprained knee. Whether it's more serious than that, we'll find out.

Sven Eriksson

It's a ligament injury. They don't think it's very serious but they will do a scan tomorrow.

Hagrup Haukland

This is the most serious incident, the way we see it, during the 3-1/2-year ceasefire.

Don Jordan

This is a very serious thing. This is not a child's playground.