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!

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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.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Pretty
  • Fall
  • Sometimes

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lovers

• Letters should be easy and natural.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Should
  • Easy
  • Natural

• 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.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Children
  • Education
  • Instruction

• Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Entering
  • Knocks
  • Persistently

• For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

  

  John Milton
  • False
  • Frail
  • Surmise

• Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

  

  John Calvin
  • Speak
  • Man's Nature
  • Factory Of Idols

• 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.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Artist
  • Draws
  • Crumbles

• I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thought
  • Smile

• Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Eyes
  • Dancing
  • Despair

• 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.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Country
  • Happened
  • Vietnam

• I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • School
  • Respect
  • Deserve

• If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity in the soul of each citizen. National greatness will not be recovered via a mindless expansion of bureaucratized schooling. Seventy years ago, Dorothy Sayers wrote, 'Sure, we demand another grant of money, we postpone the school leaving age and plan to build bigger and better schools. We demand that teachers further slave conscientiously in and out of school hours. But to what end? I believe,' Sayers lamented, 'all this devoted effort is largely frustrated because we have no definable goal for each child to become a fully formed adult. We have lost the tools of learning, sacrificing them to the piecemeal, subject matter approach of bureaucratized schooling that finally compromises to produce passive rather than active emerging adults. But our kids are not commodities, they are plants. They require a protected environment, and care, and feeding, but most basically, an internal yearning to grow toward the sunlight. What we need is the equipping of each child with those lost tools.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Kids
  • Teachers
  • Citizen

• 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!

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Teachers
  • Knocking
  • My Gate