Quotes About Bright Students

#1. It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

Malcolm Forbes

#2. I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Carl Sagan

#3. I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

Richard Stallman

#4. The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

Derek Bok

#5. The bank of love is never bankrupt.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

Barack Obama

#7. Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

John D'Agata

#8. Love happens when people forgive.

Karen Kingsbury

#9. Don't ask, "What can I do?" She doesn't know. Just do something.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#10. What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.

Dwight L. Moody

#11. What more really can be at stake except life itself, which is why maybe artists are always equating the two and driving everybody crazy by insisting that art is life. Well. Cut us some slack. It's harder work than one might imagine, and riskier, and takes a very special and dear kind of mad person.

Peter Heller

#12. Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.

Eric Maskin

#13. It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

Alexei Sayle

#14. Excuse me soldiers, but do you mind stepping away from your lady friends?"
We were here for the prostitutes.
"And why should we do that crypt Keeper?

Khalia Hades

#15. I live in heels. Give me a pair of flip-flops and I'll trip all over myself.

Brenda Song

#16. Behind Caroline was her schoolroom full of bright, eager students. God had given them to her as a gift, to show her that the sacrifices she'd made did have meaning. His purposes for her life would be partly fulfilled in them, and in those children's futures.

Lynn Austin

#17. It was a rite of passage each year at Manhattan Life Insurance Company. The golden doors would open every summer to a new crop of bright-eyed college students, all of which were over-qualified for a job that required little more than a high school-equivalent GED and a fully loaded MetroCard.

Phil Wohl

#18. We meet as mortal enemies hereafter - let us, like gallant gentlemen, exchange polite attentions in the meantime.

Wilkie Collins

#19. As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the best he could give.

Fedor Emelianenko

#20. When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.

William J. Clinton

#21. Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

Guy Finley

#22. We live at the level of our language.

Ellen Gilchrist

#23. The Doctor once more gave me a bunch of medication and checked on my ribs. "Done with the motherfucker," he said, showing me his back as he headed toward the door.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi