Unschoolers Quotes & Sayings

Your father left this in my possession before he died. It is time it was returned to you. Use it well. A Very Merry Christmas to you. — J.K. Rowling

Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns. — Tony Robbins

I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up. — Luke Wilson

Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this. — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be ... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens. — Kevin James

The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's — John Bunyan

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. — Christopher Anderson

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat. — Steve Sabol

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [ ... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind. — John Blofeld

You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage usually, but offstage sometimes I might. — Brian Regan

morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; — Charles Dickens

When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The transient vacuities of our cultural icons - success, peace, happiness, and distraction - pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful. — James Hollis