Partial Teacher Quotes & Sayings

I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one. — Robyn Schneider

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400. — Ted Williams

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening. — Frank Herbert

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have? — Howard Zinn

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict. — Rita Mae Brown

Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It's this. He's thinking that he can't win the war if he doesn't keep the people on his side. He's thinking that he can't keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population - raping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses. He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he's thinking that it doesn't matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have cried. He is thinking that in the long run if he executes somebody, he'll shorten the war and save more lives. It doesn't matter to him very much who he executes; one man's agony is like another's, one mother's tears are no wetter than anybody else's. And that's why he's going to have Sam shot. — James Lincoln Collier

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own. — Vikram Seth

been read by half a million people and the Washington Post has called her "One of — Lucy Kevin