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A teacher affects eternity:

he can never tell where his influence stops.


Henry Adams
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than
that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The important thing is not so much
that every child should be taught,
as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than
parents, for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which
requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be
more honorable than teaching?
Harriet Martineau
By learning you will teach;
by teaching you will understand.
Latin Proverb
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell L. Willkie
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the
grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Bishop Hall
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening


our own.
Ben Sweetland
Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives
colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers;
geometry weighs and measures; astronomy teaches us to know
the stars.
Latin Maxim
We learn by teaching.
James Howell
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded
in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Pindar
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it
within himself.
Galileo Galilei
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief
force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary
It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be
compared with the luxury of teaching.
Roswell D. Hitchcock
Education is the guardian genius of democracy.
It is the only dictator that free men recognize,
and the only ruler that free men require.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.


Horace
To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the
pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be,
not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
F. W. Robertson
He that teaches us anything which we knew not
before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Samuel Johnson
To teach is the center of to learn.
Japanses Saying
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
From Teaching Quotations at Parrot's Meow
Be careful to leave your sons well
instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed are better
than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living
well.
Alexander of Macedon
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it
we must be able to guess what will interest: we must learn to
read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by

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

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson


Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his arent very
new after all. -Abraham Lincoln
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at people.
Charles Bukowski
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure
Island. -Walt Disney
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at
all. -Henry David Thoreau

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

A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Cicero

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

Be awesome! Be a book nut! Dr. Seuss

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book. -Ernest Hemingway

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

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he


reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience. This is the ideal life.
-Mark Twain

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. Thomas Carlyle

Books are the training weights of the mind. -Epictetus

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

The book you dont read wont help. Jim Rohn

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. -Franz Kafka

Never judge a book by its movie. J.W. Eagan

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

Rereading, we find a new book. Mason Cooley

No two persons ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle
of it. P.J. ORourke

A book is a device to ignite the imagination. -Alan Bennett

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
James Bryce

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke

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

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to


ourselves. Jeremy Collier
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- W. Fusselman

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

Every day a thread makes a skein in the year. ~Dutch Proverb

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

Time goes, you say? Ah no!


Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson

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

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk


Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thanks, George)

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,


Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
~William Shakespeare
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa

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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