Teachingching Quotes & Sayings

Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative. — Ron Chernow

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so. — Idries Shah

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen. — Patrick Rafter

Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. Its temperament is desperate. It is a tormented response to the past, to all that has happened, the recalled and unrecalled injustices - for the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists. — Hisham Matar

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits — Morgan Llywelyn

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. — Maya Angelou

There is a story ... which is fairly well known, told about when missionaries came to Africa, that they had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. And then they said, "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. And when we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. — Desmond Tutu

Why are you staring at my boobs? My face is up here," Trudy exclaims.
Jack, the hotel employees, and I jump back like we've been electrocuted while the seniors don't skip a beat. No. She. Didn't. These geriatric devils are so bad. — Stephanie Hale

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that. — Simon Pegg

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by. — Alan Coren

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God ... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. — Orson F. Whitney

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Her little hands pushed against my chest.
They were warm
If I got shot that night, I'd still remember that one thing. Her hands were warm. — Rachel Van Dyken

In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations atlast acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness that we lost half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and , in addition, that we [would] have[in our state] 400,000 [Palestinian] Arabs. — David

...tears would have made him feel weak. Men have always been fragile that way. — N.K. Jemisin

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita