Governing Schools Quotes & Sayings

For too many generations of the common people of Rome were allowed no hand in governing, and their state religion had long since mummified into dry rituals that never touched ordinary passions. It was inevitable, proclaimed the dour scholars of the philosophical schools, that the Colosseum would become their chief temple and the fortunes of gladiators would be watched more closely than the rise and fall of nations. — Donna Gillespie

Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. — Carl Sagan

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change. — Estelle Morris

You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If we grow in faith, we shall never seize to bear fresh fruit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I absolutely love '30 Rock' and 'The Office,' but I don't know how many 13-year-olds are watching that stuff. — Justine Bateman

Where in the world would I rather be than on the front line of history? — Lynsey Addario

In exchange, he was given a note "with the armes of Englande testifying the receipt therof."24 Because of the size of his investment - £50, or roughly $10,000 in modern money, compared with the single share price of £12 10s (12 pounds, 10 shillings), or about $2,500 in modern terms - and because of his legal background, he was also appointed to the Virginia Council, the group of men whose job it would be to oversee operations of the colony from London. — Kieran Doherty

When you can look into the face of another human being and you have enough light in you to recognize your brother or you sister. Until then it is night, and darkness is still with us. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation. — Ian McEwan