Bel Kaufman Quotes
St. Peter: “Who is knocking at my gate?” Voice: “It is I.” St. Peter: “Go away, we don’t need any more school teachers here!
Quotes to Explore
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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Today's children need more years of education than we are offering. And they need more daily hours of instruction than we are providing. They are ready to learn long before kindergarten, and on the other end of the spectrum, all of them must have access to advanced education for years after they graduate from high school.
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
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I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!
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I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
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That translucent alabaster of our memories.
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As an American, Baker was well treated, although some Chinese stereotype Americans as being fat and loud, while others characterize them as living in a bubble, unaware of other cultures. ... even when they dont mean it.
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I mostly stayed in the background. I was doing quite good, but I wasn't interested in most of the subject-matter. I only found music and languages to be absorbing. I simply hadn't the desire of listening to the teachers. Maybe because it wasn't interesting enough what they had to tell. I couldn't take schooling seriously although I'd love to go back and really learn now - it wasn't what I needed at the time. My mind would wander.
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St. Peter: “Who is knocking at my gate?” Voice: “It is I.” St. Peter: “Go away, we don’t need any more school teachers here!
