Schoolteaching Quotes

#1. How many schoolteachers were aware of what they actually were a part of? Surely a number close to zero. In schoolteaching, as in hamburger-flipping, the paycheck is the decisive ingredient. No insult is meant, at bottom this is what realpolitik means. We all have to eat.

John Taylor Gatto

#2. It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.

John Taylor Gatto

#3. Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#4. It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

Tyler Perry

#5. Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer

Benjamin Spock

#6. Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

Vanessa Marcil

#7. There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

Dennis Hastert

#8. What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

Jessica Maxwell

#9. By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.

Kyle Maynard

#10. If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

William S. Burroughs

#11. All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Ovid

#12. The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?
Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

Dan Brown

#13. I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

Shannon Hale

#14. Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

Pete Seeger

#15. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.

Christina Perri

#16. Everything has happened, is happening, and will happen FOR YOU (if you BELIEVE and ACTIVELY LIVE by this mentality)!

Shay Dawkins

#17. How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

Joni Eareckson Tada