Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Kucinich

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

Edward Everett

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

Earl Butz

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Edmund White

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Betty Buckley

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Betty Buckley

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

Bennett Cerf

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

Bill Gates

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

Bob Stoops

I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.

Bo Gritz

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

Charles Kuralt

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Bobby Bowden

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

Bob Paisley

I can let the team do the talking for me.

Billy Joel

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

Bill Robinson

A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

Bill Parcells

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

Bill Parcells

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

Beverly Cleary

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

Betty White

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

Bernie Mac

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

We're just a completely different team now. You can just tell we want to win. We're going to battle. We've got heart. We want to get in the (OAC) tournament bad.

We're not a pretty team to watch, but that's how we have to play to win.

Dick Cheney

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

Ben Harper

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

Ozzie Guillen

We have the type of team that must execute,

Aberjhani

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

A. R. Ammons

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition