Esquith Quotes

#1. I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, 'Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!

Thomas Hardy

#2. I have a very eclectic group of fans. I have fans that love me for me and who have never even seen my adult work. They just like my music, or they just like me.

Sasha Grey

#3. A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Reba McEntire

#4. People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

John Darnielle

#5. Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

Rafe Esquith

#6. That's the beauty of art
we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

Rafe Esquith

#7. The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

George W. Bush

#8. Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth,

Walter Smith

#9. Consider yourself taken, sweetheart.

Jacintha Topaz

#10. I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

Rafe Esquith

#11. I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

Tobias Smollett

#12. The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

Rafe Esquith

#13. Life only favours those who understand the demand of stretch and give it fully.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Amy Winehouse

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#16. I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.

Rafe Esquith

#17. Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

Rafe Esquith

#18. There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

Rafe Esquith

#19. I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.

Rafe Esquith

#20. I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

Rafe Esquith

#21. Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Thomas Huxley

#22. I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

Rafe Esquith

#23. Teach like your hair's on fire!

Rafe Esquith

#24. I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That's why my kids work so hard, not because I'm so cool. They're working for themselves.

Rafe Esquith

#25. I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

Rafe Esquith

#26. While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

John Podhoretz

#27. I travel a lot with my students. We go on the road and even learn about things like doing your laundry and managing your time. And maybe that's not on the test at the end of the year, but it's in the test of life and that's why my classroom is successful.

Rafe Esquith

#28. How do you tell if someone is alive? You check for breathing.

Markus Zusak

#29. You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids. They're poor, maybe their families are broken, so they're not coming home to a mom and dad and a nice dinner every night. But these kids are capable.

Rafe Esquith

#30. I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.

Rafe Esquith