Playful Pedagogy Quotes & Sayings

I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed. — Emiliano Salinas

It was more the idea that my intimate moments - changing clothes, lying in bed, reading, crying - were all in fact public, available for observation by these strange men. — Piper Kerman

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves. — Pam Grier

You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind. — Jeff Foxworthy

There's nothing shameful about taking orders from a woman of superior rank. — Lee Child

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind. — Edith Hamilton

The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges. — George H. W. Bush

Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books. — Catherynne M Valente

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. — Irene Peter

Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious. — H.W.L. Poonja

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking. — Stanley Kunitz

The witch was as old as the mulberry tree
She lived in the house of a hundred clocks
She sold storms and sorrows and calmed the sea
And she kept her life in a box. — Neil Gaiman

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. — Emil Cioran

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities. — Fernando Pessoa

Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it. — Mustafa Mahmud