Funny Teacher Encouragement Quotes & Sayings

Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself. — Robert P. George

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere. — David James Elliott

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes. — Kerry King

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are. — Martin Rees

People get scared when their faith turns out to be real, when their god actually turns up on their doorstep. — Athan Fletcher

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly — Francis Bacon

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother. — Baden Powell De Aquino

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk. — Carol Shields

I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound. — Danny Elfman

The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only - only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don't think you can legislate the evil out of people. — Rick Warren

The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact. — Tim Wu

Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving. — Caterina Fake

One man's destroyer is another's nightingale. — Erich Maria Remarque