Marva Collins Education Quotes

#1. If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Diane Arbus

#2. Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

Marva Collins

#3. She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

Paula Masters

#4. When I was born, my mama's pussy had the new car smell.

Ryan Montgomery

#5. There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Marva Collins

#6. What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

Marva Collins

#7. The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

Marva Collins

#8. The lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

Aldous Huxley

#9. All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.

Isobelle Carmody

#10. There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#11. Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

Eugene O'Neill

#12. I must say, all these compliments you keep sending my way are bound to go to my head soon. Why, I don't recall the last time I was deemed peculiar and suspicious all in the same day.

Jen Turano

#13. What's so bad about addiction? I can't remember. Isn't it something about giving up your freedom? Isn't freedom an illusion?

Jeffrey Steingarten