Quotes by Educators - Page 14

In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
James Weldon Johnson
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
The oaks along the ridge were writhing like tortured epileptics in the winds, and she could make out through the thick rain a cascade of water like a cataract come roiling down the inside slope toward her; a vast arching spray exploded bright against the dark sky as the Gulf slammed over the chenier.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
You’ll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to your son, and I understand that, he was a friend to me like a brother, near the only family I ever knew, and I miss him almost as much as you. But I need me a woman.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
Rumors are the children of truth.
Danny M. Cohen
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become." -Steve Jobs
Shirley A. Aaron
you are only what you are when no one is watching.
Robert C. Edwards
Unfortunately we do treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves first and the rest will come naturally, like an 18-kt. Golden Rule.” ― Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain
Erica Goros
I spend a lot of time looking up.
Erica Goros
I have often plotted my great escape to the beach. To live seaside and to be able to stare possibility and tranquility in the face every day ... I wanted it bad enough to taste. All the while forgetting, I can lap underneath an open sky at any moment and feel awe rush over me. I can bring it close to me like a blanket—if I only remember He is my rest and refuge.
Erica Goros
Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties… go after your faith with body, mind & soul.
Erica Goros
Seems hats have been on topOf all the stages comings and goingsHelping us remember heroes and idols
Richard L. Ratliff
The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here
Jon Scieszka
John had written that normal fantasy ("normal" in the T.S. Kuhn sense) was written for the moderately educated class suffering from ennui. It was for folks stuck doing dull, repetitive work, growing old while not getting laid half often or variously enough, watching other, less deserving people (the privileged and the crooks) scoop up your share of fun. So then the fantasy generates the exciting world where you're given a heroic purpose and an opportunity to use those very powers you have suspected that you had but never have been able to locate and use, except in destructive ways when shit-faced.
Don Webb
John had written that normal fantasy ("normal" in the T.S. Kuhn sense) was written for the moderately educated class from suffering ennui. It was for folks stuck doing dull, repetitive work, growing old while not getting laid half often or variously enough, watching other, less deserving people (the privileged and the crooks) scoop up your share of fun. So then the fantasy generates the exciting world where you're given a heroic purpose and an opportunity to use those very powers you have suspected that you had but never have been able to locate and use, except in destructive ways when shit-faced.
Don Webb
Longevity is highly over rated.
Martin Kimeldorf
The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
I'm so much more scared of white guys than black guys. Like an angry black guys would pull out a gun and be like 'Yo, I'm coming back with my cousins and we're gonna funck you up' and a white guy would be like just 'BANG'!
Jeremy Iversen
If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.
Paul Langan
I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.
Sonya Huber
I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.
Sonya Huber
Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.
Sonya Huber
Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.
Erica Goros
Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.
Darcey Steinke
What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly.
Darin Strauss
To the Greeks, the word "character" first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for example bravery, was a share of something all mankind had, rather than means of distinguishing one from the whole.
Edith Hamilton
As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
Rejection is no badge of honour.
Johnny Rich
Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?""I don't know. I've never done either.
Gerald Morris
If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues.
Ilchi Lee
Every human being is a world in miniature. It has its own centre of observation, its own way of forming concepts and of arriving at conclusions, its own degree of sensibility, its own life's work to do, and its own destiny to reach. All these features may be encompassed by general conditions, governed by general laws, and subject to unforeseen influences and incidents, but within the sphere of their own activity, they constitute that great principle which we call individuality.
Karl G. Maeser
I'm smile when I look into your eyes; yet, I'm still not Okay.
kent Ian N. Cny
If you love something, let it go…
Karen Shreck
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
Erich Segal
Hugh refused to leave the scene of the action. He seated himself on the top stair in the hall, banged his head against the railing a few times, just by way of uncorking the vials of his wrath, and then subsided into gloomy silence, waiting to declare war if more “first girl babies” were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play,And wild and sweetThe words repeatOf peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
We can not be swallowed up like those little pebbles. We aren't pebbles. We won't just quietly sink to the bottom. We can run, we can fight, and we can work. We are not helpless unless we let ourselves be.
Sook Nyul Choi
It's only young people who make giant, life-altering decisions based on what other people might think, and it's because they don't see their own death looming. Their fear is, "Will my family, friends and lovers admire me?" whereas an older person's fear is that vision of themselves lying in a hospital bed, a breathing tube up their nose and the thought running through their heads, "Why didn't I at least try to do what I wanted to do, while I had the chance?
Patricia V. Davis
A girl about her own age reached out and took hold of her hand. The girl was tall and thin. She had long black hair streaked with red, and the whites of her green eyes stood out against the black coal dust that covered her face. Her blue and white dress hung in tatters, and was blackened by coal dust and smeared with blood. The girl smiled and Rosie could see that in her other hand she was holding her red umbrella.
Denny Taylor
There are televisions and radios and the sounds of life, but too there is the sound of death, crying and oxygen tanks, and the squeaky wheels on wheelchairs. Like life and death are in a very close proximity to one another.
Jon Chopan
What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.
Andy Couturier
I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.
Andy Couturier
Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?
Andy Couturier
They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.
Andy Couturier
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
Andy Couturier
To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.
R. David Lankes
Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.
Andy Couturier
Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.
Andy Couturier
My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.
Andy Couturier