Tea Quotes
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.Sir George Savile
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.George Burns
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.Whitney Moore, Jr.
One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.Josephine Preston Peabody
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.Anthony Sampson
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.William John Bennett
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.Charles A. Cerami
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.John Burroughs
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjld
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry.Unknown
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.Kahlil Gibran
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win - win basis.W. Edwards Deming
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.Wendell Phillips
A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.Henry Adams
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.George Bernard Shaw
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.Tommy Manville
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We need never be ashamed of our tears.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.John N. Mitchell
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.Adlai E. Stevenson, J
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.Aldous Huxley
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.Napolean Hill
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.Henry Kissinge
Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges.Kahlil Gibran
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
