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simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction anil vary the
song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Teaching is not a lost art,
but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
To teach is to learn twice over.
Joseph Joubert
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk
wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Newton D. Baker
A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing
else can. -William Feather
A book worth reading is worth buying. -John Ruskin
All good books have one thing in common they are truer than if they had
really happened. -Ernest Hemingway
So many books, so little time. -Frank Zappa
Good books dont give up all their secrets at once. Stephen King
Books are mirrors. You only see in them what you already have inside of
you. -Carlos Zafon
You are today who youll be in five years except for the people you meet and
the books you read. Charlie Tremendous Jones
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
Abraham Lincoln
I cannot remember the books Ive read any more than the meals I have
eaten; even so, they have made me. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outside of a dog a book is mans best friend. Inside a dog its too dark to
read. -Groucho Marx
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit
me. C.S. Lewis
Classic a book which people praise and dont read. Mark Twain
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but youll take my book when
you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. -Stephen King
The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience. This is the ideal life.
-Mark Twain
Tis the good reader that makes the good book. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youre never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a
child. Dr. Seuss
If you love books enough, books will love you back. Jo Walton
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. -Franz Kafka
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your
own version in return. Salman Rushdie
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Samuel Johnson
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -W.H. Auden
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle
of it. P.J. ORourke
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
James Bryce
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without
breaking it. Edward Morgan
You know youve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a
little as if you have lost a friend. Paul Sweeney
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could
change your life. Helen Exley
What you dont know would make a great book. Sydney Smith
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. -Daniel Handler
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think
what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is
the book. Northrop Frye
Literacy arouses hopes, not only in society as a whole but also in the
individual who is striving for fulfilment, happiness and personal benefit by
learning how to read and write. Literacy... means far more than learning
how to read and write... The aim is to transmit... knowledge and promote
social participation.
- UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a
pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
- Sydney Harris
The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones.
- Joseph Joubert
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here
to worship what is known, but to question it.
- Jacob Bronowski
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
- Elbert Hubbard
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie
Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways
by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours
supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and
each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory
is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles
Dickens
Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.
~Author Unknown
Quote 3: There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most
dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained. Winston Churchill
Quote 4: I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then
advise them to do it. Harry S. Truman
Quote 5: If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your
money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic
causes, your children wont either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will
pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. Marian Wright Edelman
Quote 6: To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we
must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must
first set our hearts right. Confucius
Quote 7: What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life to be with
each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot
Quote 8: Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. Its not something you learn in school. But if
you havent learnt the meaning of friendship, you really havent learned anything. Muhammad Ali
Quote 9: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What? You too? I thought I
was the only one. C.S. Lewis
Quote 10: We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop,
there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes
the heart run over. Samuel Johnson
Quote 11: A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. -Elbert Hubbard
Quote 12: A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you
have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. William Shakespeare
Quote 13: What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
Quote 14: Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession,
friendship is never anything but sharing. -Elie Wiesel
Quote 15: The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of
companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else
believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson Read more
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