Stephen Foster Quotations

This picture represents all the contributors to the arts, taken in 1988.

There has been a shift in math instruction away from an emphasis on computation and drill, and more of an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking, ... The changes to our math curriculum forces students to do more analysis.

Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as 'The Old Folks At Home' stares me in the face with another's name on it.

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old? The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing. What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river.

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order. ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style.

But we just kept hitting dead ends. It's one of the cases that really gets to you, especially when you realize it's 10 years.

This is quite an accomplishment. You are basically putting yourself on the line and saying 'come in and look at how well we're doing' and it is also a chance for improvement,

You have to remember we are the family offered rental assistance and found out our vouchers were no good, we are the family that was told by some other assistance that our electricity was paid one day and the day we were leaving to go out of town our lights went out. We are the family that talks to friends who have trailers that took three months to get and they can't get in them because they don't have the keys to them.