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

• If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Laugh
  • Insane

• 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

• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sports

• Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Learning
  • Wisdom
  • Imagine

• I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him."

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Jobs

• My ex-girlfriend said to me, 'I'm surprised at how normal you are since you were homeschooled.' But I was only homeschooled because I wanted to be an actor. My parents are both teachers.

  

  Reece Thompson
  • Actor
  • Wanted
  • Girlfriend

• 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