Pedagogics University Quotes & Sayings

If I drag it up from the bottom of the river, if I dig deep into that muddy floor and pull it up, even if I get most of it wrong, is it mine to tell? — Jon Chopan

The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects. — Isaac Newton

It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain. — Willa Cather

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them ... Well, it's killing me! — Wendy Liebman

The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia. — Roger Altman

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker. — Gough Whitlam

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since. — Linda Ellerbee

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. — Jean Chretien

Well, you better learn fast. You've got about as much charm as a dead slug," says Haymitch. — Suzanne Collins

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! — Neal A. Maxwell

The elder Miss Larkin — Charles Dickens

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little. — Thomas Jefferson