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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Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.
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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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There can be no great love without exclusivity.
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I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.
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This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!
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Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
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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!
