Quotes by Teachers - Page 3

Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.
Golda Meir
If you want to kill time try working it to death.
Sam Levenson
I must govern the clock not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.
Aaron Copland
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
Rowland Hill
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
Gustav Hoist
Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
Nadia Boulanger
Because it's there.
G. H. L. Mallory
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson
Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice love passion.
Nadia Boulanger
Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri
The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri
There is no such thing as expecting too much.
Susan Cheever
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda Meir
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.
Mariama Bâ
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
Insanity is hereditary you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.
Bel Kaufman
Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Bebe Moore Campbell
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
Golda Meir
Leap and the net will appear.
Julie Cameron
It is brave to be involved.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Do whatever you do intensely.
Robert Henri
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
Love at first sight is easy to understand it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Sam Levenson
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.
Golda Meir
Do you want to know how to write novels? I’ll tell you the secret: start on page one and keep going, in order, until you come to the last page. Then stop.
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.
Stephen Koch
Remember whose you are and whom you serve.
Oswald Chambers
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
Oswald Chambers
There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action―Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.
Julia Cameron
I'd say," the Ranger answered after a few seconds' deliberation, "that he'll be heading south now that he has the chance. Back into Araluen.""How do you know that?" Horace asked. He was always impressed at the two Rangers' ability to read a situation and come up with the correct answer to a problem. Sometimes, he thought, they almost seemed to have divine guidance."I'm guessing," Halt told him.
John Flanagan
And why would I be hiding from Master Chubb in his own kitchen?" Halt challenged. Again, Horace shrugged innocently. "Well, there was a tray of freshly made pies airing on the windowsill, wasn't there? And you're quite fond of pies, aren't you, Halt?" Halt drew himself up very straight in the saddle. "Are you accusing me of sneaking into that kitchen to steal the pies for myself? Is that it?" His voice and body language simply reeked of injured dignity."Of course not, Halt!" Horace hurried to assure him, and Halt's stiff-shouldered form relaxed a little."I just thought I'd give you the opportunity to confess," Horace added.
John Flanagan
Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree.
John Flanagan
Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.
Oswald Chambers
And once when we were walking on Bredon Hill, we met a bedraggled and exhausted fox. 'Oh, poor thing,' Jack said. 'What shall we do when the hunt comes up? I can already hear them. Oh, I know -- I have an idea.' He cupped his hands and shouted to the first riders, "Hallo, yoicks, gone that way," and pointed in the direction opposite to the one the fox had taken. The whole hunt followed his directions. There followed a long discussion about when lying was morally justifiable, but he boasted delightedly later to my wife that he had saved the life of a poor fox and showed no trace of guilt.
George Sayer
It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
Idries Shah
When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.
Wally Lamb
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.
Oswald Chambers
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.
Charles Olson
To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
Idries Shah
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
Idries Shah
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
Idries Shah
i like it because it is so funny and harry is so rude and but sometime he ca be nice to people.
Suzy Kline
Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.
Carl Deuker
The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers
When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.
Oswald Chambers
...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
Oswald Chambers
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
Oswald Chambers
...and though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.
Natalie Goldberg
Your pony, he said as he stomped toward me. "I'm the farrier who is here to fix your pony.""I thought you were a Hells Angel," I said."I used to be," he replied. "But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.
Jack Gantos