Tea Quotes
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.E. M. Forste
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.George MacDonald
Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities.Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
There is no accountability in the public school system - Except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984
A thief believes everybody steals.E. W. Howe
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.Kahlil Gibron
God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.The Talmud
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.Rene Descartes
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.Martin Luthe
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.Bob Conklin
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!Othello
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.Channing Pollock
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Muriel Strode
Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.Prophet Muhammad, Muslim
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.Gloria Steinem
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
America, why are your libraries full of tears?Allen Ginsberg
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.Amos Bronson Alcott
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.James Barrie
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.Robert Green Ingersoll
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.Chinese Prove
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.Lee Iacocca
Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.German prove
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
History is philosophy teaching by examples.Henry St. John Bolingbroke
