12th Students Quotes & Sayings

When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, Richard, what do you see? I said, I see all types of people. The voice said, But do you see any niggers? I said, No. It said, Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any. — Richard Pryor

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. — Rebecca West

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. — Oliver Herford

Actually, it's not the impertinence I'm punishing him for, it's that he let other people know what he wanted. — Douglas Coupland

Maybe what really matters is technology's power to enable students to reach a vast and real audience that they could never dream of in the traditional classroom. — Yong Zhao

How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English
or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars. — Frosty Wooldridge

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial. — Dave Sim

Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores. — Robin Hobb

Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process. — Jane Green

For you, I do morning price. — S.A. Tawks

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome. — Jess Row

Since God lives in the heart, I was not to seek some Being way up in the sky . . . my journey to God was not outward, but inward! The only way to get closer to God was to become ordered enough inside to enable me to experience him within. When our emotions are running loose, and our minds are confused . . . and our imagination is working overtime, there's so much internal noise that we can't hear the still voice of God.

So many times over my years as a mother I had felt tired, overwhelmed, and worn out So often I felt I couldn't get any personal space to think, what with the continual onslaught of "Mummy! Mummy!" coming from the children, or the work that I hadn't finished staring me in the face. I needed quiet time alone. — Holly Pierlot