Passionate Educators Quotes & Sayings

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am a person. I do exist. — Aimee Alexander

It felt natural, somehow, to be beside him - natural and reassuring - like coming home after a long journey to finally sleep in your own bed. — Mereda Hart Farynyk

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race
scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct ... it has a social function, racism. — Toni Morrison

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that's kind of a strange belief. Given what we know about the way people really are. Selfish and shortsighted and egotistical and needy. Why should being a parent, in and of itself, somehow confer superior-personhood on everybody who tries it? Obviously it doesn't. — Jonathan Franzen

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. — Robin Quivers

Cursed be the weapon that tastes the blood of a friend. — Lynn Flewelling

Precisely in the most desperate moments, when having the masculine role feels most unfair, when we're our most tired, running on fumes, and need to keep providing in all these aspects, this is when the provision of God tastes the sweetest. — David Mathis

Once they're both gone, your parents' house instantly turns into a museum. — Christopher Buckley

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do. — Katy Perry

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on. — Fred L. Turner

Most often, what I don't know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jesus has no house, because his house is the people; it is we who are his dwelling place; his mission is to open God's doors to all, to be the presence of God's love. — Pope Francis

She loved his laughter. She loved that he faced the world with a reckless smile on his scarred face. Her heart crashed against her chest. A revelation descended. A revelation unrelated to the desire heating her blood. — Anna Campbell