Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

Michael Jackson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

Phil McGraw

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Peter Medawar

In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.

Pete Seeger

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Pete Seeger

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

Pete Carroll

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

Pete Carroll

Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know whats going to happen next.

Paulo Coelho

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

Robert Hass

A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.

Robert Hass

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

Robert Hass

When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.

Robert Henri

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

Robert Henri

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Rick Reilly

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Rick Ross

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

Rick Ross

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

Rick Ross

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Debby Ryan

With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.

Debby Ryan

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

E. O. Wilson

[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

E. O. Wilson

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

Drew Brees

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better