Schoolbooks Quotes

#1. Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

Michael Ondaatje

#2. In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Leopold Von Ranke

#3. I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

Tim LaHaye

#5. We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

Albert Einstein

#6. Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.

Lou Gerstner

#7. I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

Dave Mustaine

#8. And I suspect, Mr. Potter, that if I leave you alone for two months with your schoolbooks, even without a wand, I will return to this house only to find a crater billowing purple smoke, a depopulated city surrounding it and a plague of flaming zebras terrorising what remains of England.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#9. I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart."
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Willa Cather

#10. After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat the experience.

James C. Scott

#11. Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Bill Blass

#12. There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

Eric Drooker

#13. The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism, and the uncontrollable violence--all the things our grandparents called 'the good old days'...

Chris Elliott

#14. I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

Cliff Martinez

#15. We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy.

Nel Noddings

#16. Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

J.G. Ballard

#17. Lack of compliance is hindering the investigation.

Charlie Melancon

#18. The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

John F. Kennedy

#19. Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.

Ana Monnar

#20. Steadily, we are listening more to the intelligence of our hearts - and acting on that wisdom. And that's what spirituality is - an expression of Love.

Danielle LaPorte

#21. Nas is the only person whose concert I been to.

DMX

#22. When the inner Spirit has Liberation, Inspiration is born!-RVM

R.v.m.