Tea Quotes - Page 24

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

There are teams that wait for you and teams that look for you: Espanyol look for you. I feel very close to their style of football.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.

Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.