Teacher Monday Quotes

#1. I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Carrie Fisher

#2. I lost you
when you left me
to find yourself.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#3. I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

Barack Obama

#4. Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

Adora Svitak

#5. I began to wait. My thoughts swung wildly. I was either fixed on practical details of immediate survival or transfixed by pain, weeping silently, my mouth open and my hands on my head.

Yann Martel

#6. On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

Jonathan Kozol

#7. The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents - because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

Frank Zappa

#8. MARGARET HAD SEEN ASH cheerfully powerful, as talkative as a jaybird. She'd seen him silently powerful while he was listening to those around her. She didn't like seeing him vulnerable. It made her feel odd inside - hotly angry on his behalf, and enraged that someone had made him feel that way.

Courtney Milan

#9. This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

Joseph Hall

#10. What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed.

Greg Bear

#11. Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

Matthew Specktor

#12. The more man studies, the less he loves reading

Mokokoma Mokhonoana