Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abdullah Gul

Our friendly relationship of mutual understanding with the United States will go on, ... One should not limit it to a motion.

Becca Fitzpatrick

That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

Bob Johnson

We need someone who is taxpayer friendly and not just friendly.

Carl Rogers

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Tom Jaffee

I think there is a lot to be said about first impressions, so making yourself look good and having a friendly greeting with somebody goes a long way.

Silke Stegemann

I think Engelhard is opening up to a friendly transaction.

George Bernard Shaw

It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.

Annika Sorenstam

I think I've become friendly with the golf course. I think with the rain, it totally softened the greens. And it seems like I play well when I can be more aggressive. ... It's kind of a ball-striking type of golf course, which I say is one of my strengths as well.

Atharva Veda

Grief is a friendly reminder, a good task-master; even a better teacher than joy.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

C. S. Lewis

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Carrie Brownstein

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

George Herbert

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot

Charles Kingsley

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Charles Darwin

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Bharati Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?