Considerations For Educationally Relevant Quotes & Sayings

In modern times much thought has been devoted to the methods used in constructing the Great Pyramid. Egyptologists marvel that such a task could have been accomplished before they were born, and our engineers say they would not have undertaken it with only some old copper tools and a complete lack of stainless steel machinery. It hardly seems possible that the ancient Egyptians were as smart as these experts. Still, they went right ahead and did it, and you can draw your own conclusions. The fact is that building a pyramid is fairly easy, aside from the lifting. You just pile up stones in receding layers, placing one layer carefully upon another, and pretty soon you have a pyramid. You can't help it.19 And once it is up, it stays there. Why wouldn't it? In other words, it is not the nature of a pyramid to fall down, and that explains why the Great Pyramid is still standing after all these years. — Will Cuppy

I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time. — Mike Rogers

Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success. — Abdul Kalam

cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today's elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed Physics for Poets and Rocks for Jocks and have remained ignorant of science ever since, despite the obvious importance of scientific literacy to informed choices about personal health and public policy. But saying that you have never heard of James Joyce or that you tried listening to Mozart once but prefer Andrew Lloyd Webber is as shocking as blowing your nose on your sleeve or announcing that you employ children in your sweatshop, despite the obvious unimportance of your tastes in leisure-time activity to just about anything. — Steven Pinker

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices. — Dorothea Dix

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke. — Willard Scott

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth. — Gary Vaynerchuk

All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision. — Carly Fiorina

You do realize this makes your wings even more unique."
"Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure? — Nalini Singh

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance. — Svetlana Alliluyeva

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't. — Bob Dylan

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect. — Lou Barletta