Cat Quotes - Page 54

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.

The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..." Mencheres to Cat

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Being Tigerstar's son has meant I've had to win the trust of every ThunderClan cat over and over. So I know how frustrating it is when you have to prove something that shouldn't need proving.

This is not my Clan. Not any longer. ThunderClan is led by a kittypet, and there's nothing left to fight for. I feel no loyalty to ThunderClan. In the whole forest, the only cat worth following is Tigerstar.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.