Quotes by Educators

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.
Richard Armour
I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.
Frederick Barthelme
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Scientifically, just because the spiritual person can manifest a drink of coffee, does not mean that he or she knows how it happens!
Richard Gentle
The sign above the door was written in French. It read: ARRÊTE ! C’EST ICI L’EMPIRE DE LA MORT.“That means,” he explained to Gini, “‘Stop! It is here the Empire of Death.
Paul Aertker
The wrought-iron gate squeaked as Lucas opened it. He lowered the rented bike down the stone steps and onto the sidewalk. To his right was the most famous Globe Hotel in Paris, disguised under another name. In front of the entrance five Curukians sat on mopeds. Lu-cas and his eighteen-month-old friend then shot out across the street and through the invisible beam of an-other security camera.He rode diagonally across the place de la Concorde and headed toward the river. It seemed only natural. The motorcycles trailed him. He pedaled fast across the Alex-andre III bridge and zipped past Les Invalides hospital. He tried to turn left at the Rodin Museum, but Goper rode next to him, blocking his escape.
Paul Aertker
You do not have to respond to a tiny annoying mosquito with a large hammer. You know what will happen? You will miss and hurt yourself.
Mary Ashun
Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.
Raymond L. Atkins
Do what you can, when you can.
Johnny Worthen
In the minds of some people, writing is one thing, but thinking is quite another. If they define writing as spelling, the production of sentences with random meanings, and punctuation, then they might have a case. But who would accept such a definition? Writing is the production of meaning. Writing is thinking.
George Hillocks Jr.
We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will stop looking to the pictures for information.
Adele Devine
You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are.
Ronald Velesovsky
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions aspirations dreams! Book of Beginnings Story without End Each maid a heroine and each man a friend!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words a paragraph no unnecessary sentences for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline but that every word tell.
William Strunk
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Quintilian
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
Nicholas Murray Butler
There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
Maria Montessori
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work
Edith Hamilton
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen Chase
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results it produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
Marsha Sinetar
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Why don't you speak for yourself John?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
Laurence J. Peter
Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.
Horace Mann
Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
Horace Mann
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia F. Carney
This is the forest primeval.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'
Edith Hamilton
Today is the blocks with which we build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The present is the blocks with which we build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Act-act in the living Present!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and that's better.
George E. Woodberry
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.
Max Lerner
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your nightmares.
Richard Armour
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Conant
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.
Harold Loukes
Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.
Max Lerner