Place Based Education Quotes

#1. Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind ...

Porphyry

#2. What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Peter Schuyler

#3. When you're sentenced to drive a Smart car on a road where everything else has a speed best described by its mach number, you tend to pay attention.

Charles Stross

#4. Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher

#5. There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.

Matt Dillon

#6. This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England.

Andrea Mays

#7. You can't know what you need to know until it's up for you to know it.

Art Hochberg

#8. I dip my head and kiss her. I kiss her like she deserves to be kissed. I hold her like she deserves to be held. And I'm about to make love to her like she deserves to be loved.

Colleen Hoover

#9. If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

Mother Teresa

#11. Fashion is such stuff as dreams are made on ...

Anna Dello Russo

#12. Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.

Billy Graham

#13. Reading is more important than writing.

Roberto Bolano

#14. When he remembered, his indrawn breath pulled her scent into his mouth, coating his tongue with her taste. He swallowed that delicious flavor as his heartbeat sped.

Kat Simons

#15. Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

Dagobert D. Runes

#16. I shall think of you
Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing.
You are a burning lamp to me, a flame
The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness.

Edna St. Vincent Millay