quotes for teachers from students

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law, it is administered with subhuman efficiency. ~Eric Ambler



The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer



The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. ~Bill Fitch



A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ~Baltasar Gracian



But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. ~Mark Twain



I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators. ~Gerald Ford



Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday."



Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. ~Margaret Mead



And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath



The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. ~Author Unknown



Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you. ~Gladstone, 1865



Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown



Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Your heart knows all, pay it more attention. ~Sina G., @just_sina_



We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. ~Arthur Hoppe



My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. ~Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889



Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. ~Stephen Baker