Teach Quotes - Page 32

• All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Patience, Men, Tolerance

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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• I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.

  Simone Elkeles

  Husband, School, Gang Members

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• She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

  Annie Ernaux

  World, Reason, Made

  Annie Ernaux (1995). “Frozen Woman”

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• Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?

  Marquis de Sade

  Wish, Enigma, Knows

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• I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren’t exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Army, Enemy, Special

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love (2011). “Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - A B.A.D. Collection: Phantom in the Night, Whispered Lies, Silent Truth and an excerpt from Alterant”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never stop I will kiss her before I lay her down at night and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive I'll tell her to set things on fire and keep them burning I'll teach her that fire will not consume her that she must use it

  Nicole Blackman

  Girl, Baby, Kissing

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• And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, War, Writing

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Aug 27, 2014

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• There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Unique, Years, Two

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Giving, Trying

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

  Jane Austen

  Knowing

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 54 (1813)

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• I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Walking Away, Rejection

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.98, Canongate Books

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• I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Eye, Feet

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Order, Eels

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Twilight, Land, Sky

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• I'll see you later Roza." "At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still have things to teach me." Standing in the doorway, he looked over at me and smiled. "Yes. Lots of things.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Practice, Roza

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.171, Penguin

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• One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Book, Sheep

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• See... I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Real, Fire

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.94, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Sleep, Destiny

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.276, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table. "What's doing with the hair spray? You boys going drag on us?" Butch held up the lenght of PVC pipe he was punching a hole in. "Potato launcher, my man. Big fun." "Excuse me ?" "Didn't you ever go to summer camp ?" "Basket weaving and woodcarving are for humans. No offense, but we have better things to teach our youngs.

  J.R. Ward

  Summer, Fun, Coffee

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Lover Awakened: Number 3 in series”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• We speak, but it is God who teaches.

  Saint Augustine

  Speak

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• Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Wisdom, Jesus

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• What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

  Janet Fitch

  Names, Tears, Twenties

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• Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

  Stephen Fry

  Lectures, Students, Seminars

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.52, The Overlook Press

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• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

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• With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Eye, Light

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