Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

Mark Twain

It does say if you don't love your fellow Christians you're not one in the big book.

James Dye

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

Albert A. Grant

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

Jonathan Kozol

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Sitting Bull

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.

Marcel Proust

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Richard Cecil

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

Jacob F. Roecker

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

Jodie Foster

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Samuel Butler