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!

Bel Kaufman

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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

• In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • God
  • Day
  • Justice

• I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

  

  T Cooper
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Life
  • Know
  • Better

• There was a time when going out every other weekend to see your friends play cool gigs was a regular part of life.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Time
  • Friends
  • See

• My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Strong
  • Singing
  • Voice

• 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