Teacher Advocate Quotes & Sayings

If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times. — Betsy Sholl

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment. — Leon Max

Jesus was killed. This is one of those facts that everybody knows, but whose significance is often overlooked. He didn't simply die; he was executed. We as Christians participate in the only major religious tradition whose founder was executed by established authority. And if we ask the historical question, "Why was he killed?" the historical answer is because he was a social prophet and movement initiator, a passionate advocate of God's justice, and radical critic of the domination system who had attracted a following. If Jesus had been only a mystic, healer, and wisdom teacher, he almost certainly would not have been executed. Rather, he was killed because of his politics - because of his passion for God's justice. — Marcus J. Borg

Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces. — Newt Gingrich

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman. — Justin Trudeau

Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself. — Karl Rahner

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures. — George Lucas

The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

The mind's only perfect vassal. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people. — Marian Wright Edelman

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ... — George Santayana

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger. — Oprah Winfrey

This might be the best day of my life," Zane said disbelievingly. Ty — Abigail Roux

One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view, a critic of certain positions, an exemplar of someone trying to communicate, a purveyor of images, a practitioner of behavioral standards, a person dealing with, and indeed responsible for, others in common tasks. In teaching, at least, the role of moral agent is inescapable. — Robert Audi

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her. — Cassandra Clare