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

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Robert Klein

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

Richard Rolle

Make sure you're not being put into a class of comparables that you shouldn't be,

Thomas Fuller

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether

Robert Lloyd

Librarians, counselors, teachers, training, students, support, systems all those are excluded from the classroom expenses.

Tom Edwards

Lots of kids liked him, all different kids in his class.

Reggie Witherspoon

Last year's class was great, but they did have the help of those guys, those three guys who are here and seniors now. And what made it really challenging for these three is . . . we had to play a lot of freshman and a lot of new guys. And last year we rarely played a freshman in a game like this. We didn't have to go that deep.

Andrew Gibson

Last year we met as an after-school club, but this year we are meeting as a class during lunch period.