Teacher Student Affair Quotes & Sayings

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

she is the sea he listens to with his hands — Gwen Calvo

He's an idiot for letting you walk away in that dress tonight. — Kelly Stevenson

Love is impatient; love is cruel. It gets your hopes up then tears them down expecting you to be ok; able to cope without that second part of you that belongs to one unique person. — Alexandria Rhodes

He tells my parents how I took every class he taught. He tells them, "You have a special boy here." Embarrassed, I look at my feet. Before we leave, I hand my professor a present, a tan briefcase with his initials on the front. I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.
"Mitch, you are one of the good ones," he says, admiring the briefcase. Then he hugs me. I feel his thin arms around my back. I am taller than he is, and when he holds me, I feel awkward, older, as if I were the parent and he were the child.
He asks if I will stay in touch, and without hesitation I say, "Of course." When he steps back, I see that he is crying. — Mitch Albom

that is Nature's way: she will allow a gentleman of splendid physiognomy and poetic aspirations to sing woefully out of tune, and not give him the slightest hint of it; and takes care that some narrow-browed fellow, trolling a ballad in the corner of a pot-house, shall be as true to his intervals as a bird. — George Eliot

He'd loved her, he had. And he knew she loved him, he knew it! But it wasn't enough. She couldn't have imagined such a thing was possible. Love wasn't enough — Janet Fitch

I would never see him again.
But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him.
Now I had only to trust in myself. — Samantha Shannon

Great mentorship is priceless. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a different matter entirely to commit military resources to keep peace in such areas, where often no peace can be kept, or to build nations in our own image before they are ready for our freedoms - or even want them. The military need not do the work of sanctions and diplomacy. As we carry on in this new century, we would do well to remember the importance of balancing the twin goals of our foreign policy: preserving national security and promoting democratic principles. And we must remember that historic conflicts between enemies can be won on moral force, without firing a single bullet or missile; that cultural, market, political, and perhaps religious forces can be far more transformative in areas of the world where chaos and violence reign; and that America can contribute to the building of nations by any and all of these means - while preserving our military and reserving our sovereign right to wage war to maintain true peace. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I'm still alive. — Suman Pokhrel

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. — Yann Martel

Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck. — Al Siebert

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home. — Richard Hell

And most of all...I learned that even in the darkest of nights, the stars will always shine. ~ Lynn — Ava Harrison