Compelling Education Quotes

#1. You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Toni Morrison

#2. Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is like trying to eat soup with a fork. You can get a little taste, but you cannot get nourished.

William Cameron Townsend

#3. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Matthew 7:14

Jessica Shirvington

#4. This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

Dallas Willard

#6. The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#7. Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.

Shashi Deshpande

#8. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

Agatha Christie

#9. The roof was a gymnasium for the winds

Thomas Hardy

#10. work, pray and play not from here

Eman Herzallah

#11. Let's admit the real reason that we ban cell phones is that, given the opportunity to use them, students would vote with their attention, just as adults would 'vote with their feet' by leaving the room when a presentation is not compelling.

Marc Prensky

#12. For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest of the world, which means the church should be more like a zoo than a tomb of identical mummies.

Mike Yaconelli

#13. People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment ... What kind of prayer would we use?

Cal Thomas

#14. I left the front stoop on Leslie Street, ate of the fruit of the tree of fiction, and nothing, neither reality nor myself, has been the same since.

Philip Roth

#15. Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As

Holly Black

#16. Thy purpose unchanged; receivest again what Thou findest, yet didst never lose; never in need, yet rejoicing in gains;

Augustine Of Hippo