Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Brian Eno

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

David Pogue

The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.

Carter G. Woodson

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Johnson

Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Ann Jones

we have neglected that area. And it will take a big project to really turn it around.

Joy Behar

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.

Debbie Carter

She did not look like she was neglected in any way.

Ariel Sharon

Now they're really disillusioned with him because he is doing the opposite. They feel quite neglected because the state used to nourish them. But at the end of the day, they are a small hard-core.

Edwin Morgan

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Ellen G. White

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Sue Kelly

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Darryl Paulson

For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have to go to work to support the family,

Jean de la Bruyere

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

Eric Brown

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Charles Buxton

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Li Zhaoxing

The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way,

Kerry Greenwood

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Kathe Kollwitz

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

John Abizaid

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

Denis Diderot

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Kevin Chambers

There is no process for regular review of local issuing authorities. If someone just stops performing that duty, we'd have no way of knowing that.