Eva Moskowitz Quotes
In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.
Eva Moskowitz
Quotes to Explore
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Things can only go uphill from here. They can't go any lower than that.
Joe Mays
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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
Alec Guinness
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Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
Alex Trebek
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Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.
Antonio Damasio
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Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.
Marge Piercy
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a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
Albert Einstein
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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
Oscar Wilde
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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
Muhammad Ali
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When we got started, my colleague, Brad Williamson, said that we ought to get schools involved. I was skeptical that school kids could contribute, but we designed something that teachers could use to help students contribute data.
Chip Taylor
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The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.
Nancy Etcoff
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Schools are launching pads, launching our kids into their futures. Unfortunately, a lot of what we teach now looks identical to what we taught 40, 50, or 60 years ago. There's a need for both timeless curriculum content and timely content. What seems to be falling by the wayside is timely content.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
