Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

Chris Crutcher

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth.

Charles Spurgeon

No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

Charles Phillips

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Diane Ravitch

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

Diane Ravitch

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

Diane Ravitch

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

Diane Ravitch

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

Diane Ravitch

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

Malorie Blackman

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Rose Mashigo

Making love to my thoughts always inspires me to keep my thoughts aroused, for more inspiration.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Jesse Plemons

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Josie Bissett

My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.

Elizabeth Edwards

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

Deepak Chopra

Love can heal. Love can renew. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us with its power. Love can bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra

I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth

Dennis Lehane

What molds us is what maims us.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Al Gore

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

Bashar al-Assad

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

Troy Polamalu

I see everything in his game. He's still one of the players who provides you with the mold about how to play the game.

Al Jourgensen

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

Mike Leatherwood

This year's team has players who like to play together. I think basketball, more than any sport, you have to mold players into a cohesive unit.

Debbie Breen

We molded it completely to the area. We want people to have options so they want to live here.

David Hancock

I've been surprised just with the strength of the Hitachi name. I thought I would have to mold it.