Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
~quote about Teachers by Haim G. Ginott
Our thoughts can help us more than doctors and harm us more than brickbats.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
~sayings on Civil Disobedience by Louis D. Brandeis
That was rough.... Thing to do now is try and forget it.... I guess I don't quite mean thatIt's not a thing you can forgetMaybe not even a thing you want to forget.... Life's like that sometimes... Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, lif
~quotations on Adversity by From the movie Old Yeller
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit
~movie quotes wav file by Nelson Henderson
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
~saying about movie wav file by James Thurber
Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway.
~quote about Insects by Mary Kay Ash
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
~quotes on Parenting by Elizabeth Stone
Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.
~sayings on Television by Fred Allen
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
~quotations on Hypocrisy by Aldous Huxley
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~movie quotes wav file by Edwin Way Teale
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden
~saying about movie wav file by Attributed to Claudia Ghandi
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
~quote about Attitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
~quotes on Teachers by John Cotton Dana
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
~sayings on Future by Jim Bishop
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste.
~quotations on Environment by Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960 (Thank
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
~movie quotes wav file by George Carlin
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
~saying about movie wav file by Author Unknown
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine
~quote about Groundhog Day by Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
~quotes on Hypocrisy by Josh Billings
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
~sayings on Perseverance by William James
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
~quotations on Famous Saying by Benjamin Franklin
It costs much to feed a vice as a family. Very often the money spent on vice would make us independence.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
~saying about movie wav file by Galway Kinnell
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does
~quote about Retirement by Author Unknown
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
~quotes on Charm by Logan Pearsall Smith
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
~sayings on Psychology by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
~quotations on Happiness by V.S. Pritchett
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
~movie quotes wav file by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial
~saying about movie wav file by Thomas Jefferson
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
~quote about Books Reading by P.J. O'Rourke
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~quotes on Happiness by Dalai Lama
Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.
~sayings on Medical by Martin H. Fischer
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
~quotations on Age by Timothy Leary
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
~movie quotes wav file by Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.
~saying about movie wav file by J.S. Farynski
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence
~quote about Goodbye by Alcibiades
Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes?
~quotes on Food by Chang Chan-Pao
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