Tea Cakes Looks Quotes & Sayings

Changing things in education involves hard work, determination and an ability to swim against the tide. — Adele Devine

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters — George Fitzhugh

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good. — Billy Sunday

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. — John Muir

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me. — Sting

The German astronomer Johannes Kepler coined the term "camera obscura" in the early seventeenth century, but by then the phenomenon had been known for millennia; in fact, it is perhaps the oldest known optical illusion. Some form of camera obscura was most likely behind a popular illusion performed in ancient Greece and Rome, in which spectral images were cast upon the smoke of burning incense by performers using concave metal mirrors - hence the expression "smoke and mirrors. — Jennifer Ouellette

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing. — Lois McMaster Bujold

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give. — Franka Potente

Any story is an ocean whose tide begins in a place I can't know, and my life is but a moment in that flood, my part in it only a mote in the flow. — Ned Hayes

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force! — Suzanne Brockmann

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. — Nick Bantock

To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves. — Michael Sata

Concentrate on what you need to do ... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it? ... It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it. — Laurence Boldt

FMr. Oswald places the telescope on the desk in front of us. "This," he says proudly, "Is a Broadhurst. It was the most powerful telescope for backyard veiwing in its day."
Which was when?" Lizzy asks.
The nineteen thirties," he replies. "Isn't it a beauty? On a clear night, you could see the whole entire solar system with this one."
Unable to stop myself, I blurt out, "My very energetic mother just served us nine pizzas."
Lizzy gawks at me like I have two heads. "He's lost it; he's finally lost it. I knew this day would come."
Mr. Ozwald chuckles. "Jeremy has just given us a mnemonic device for remembering the order of the planets. — Wendy Mass

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. — E. M. Forster