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

Gil Reyes

We're not crazy about the cortisone, but it allows us to work.

Lindsay Davenport

Lots of crazy things can happen on this surface but it was pretty easy,

Dennis Rodman

Many things have happened in the last 10 years. ... I should have been dead, ... The crazy antics, the wild parties. If I did drugs the way I partied with drinking, I would be dead.

Pamela Boggs

Menopause is a perfectly natural process. As family members and friends recognize that this is a normal process and learn about the normal, natural symptoms, they will then treat the woman like she's normal and natural rather than a crazy woman.

Lin Dutton

My kids used to tease me and say the neighbor kids probably called me 'the crazy gourd lady' because of the gourds taking over the place. It really was a funny sight.

Jibril Rajoub

Netanyahu must stop his crazy policies in East Jerusalem, ... The reaction, the riots, the demonstrations are the result of these policies.

Peter Boockvar

Noone questions why we were so crazy the first week of January, we're giving back some of the fluff rally.

Hassan Shehata

Morale is very high after all the victories and with the crazy support we'll have, we're going to do everything we can to win.

Donovan Morgan

My grandmother was crying because she was saying out of her whole 71 years, she's never seen anything like that. There are a whole lot of crazy things going on down there. I just want them out of there.

James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness

Neil Peart

Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.

Toba Beta

Leash the anger on purpose. Unleash it when falling apart.

Bryan Lee

Many of our clients receiving a buyout package have broken down and cried in our office, either from anger or joy. Emotionally, people need someone to turn to so they can get everything out, if not a financial planner, then their spouse or friends.

Ghassan Khatib

Many of us noticed this accumulation of anger and frustration. In our public opinion polls it was very clear that there is a decline in the level of support to the peace process...

John Edwards

One of the striking things about seeing Edwards up close is the degree of raw anger he evinces in his speeches -- and the level of anger he elicits from his audiences toward the president.

Bhagavad Gita

One develops attachment to sense objects by thinking about sense objects. Desire for sense objects comes from attachment to sense objects, and anger comes from unfulfilled desires.

James Gray

Obviously you can't commit a crime this heinous unless you've got a lot of hate and anger in your heart,

Ta-Nehisi Coates

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.