Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes & Sayings

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content. — Anne Sullivan Macy

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828 — Anne Sullivan Macy

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object. — Anne Sullivan Macy

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today ... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't. — Anne Sullivan Macy

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. — Anne Sullivan Macy

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush — Anne Sullivan Macy

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it. — Anne Sullivan Macy