Tea Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag - You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
Kwan - Tzu
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
Tommy lasorda, on pitcher fernando valenzuela - all last year we tried to teach him english, and...
Ovid - tears at times have all the weight of speech....
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
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
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
Only dreamers can teach us to soar.
Anne Marie Pierce
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing
Pablo piccaso - my mother said to me, if you go into the...
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
Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.
Robert J. Collie
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
Andre Malraux
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
Maya Angelou
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can? t teach someone who writes columns to care.
Ellen Goodman
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Henry Maudsley
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
Arnold J. Toynbee
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophenes
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides, Alexande
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?
Alan Perlis
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
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
Anatole France
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
Allen Ginsberg
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Edith Ann
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Joseph Addison