American Educator Quotations | Page 3

It was apparent from the early 80s that in order to do something lasting and significant in Haiti we would need a springboard in the States.

It turns out Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman, was a real historical figure who played a very important role in the frontier in the Northwest territory.

It used to be said of this man that he would gain any case that was in itself debateable, and depended on evidence, if he got money enough.

It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

Not just project, but on stage, you have to begin at the beginning and end at the end, and you're out there, you can't stop for anything.

The naval station's location means the military can base more personnel there and devote more resources to training and supervision.

At the same time, the fact the world's poor are calling upon us to help is a marker, in my view, of the limitless potential of human solidarity.

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

I never saw a woman to come into one of our mining camps in California but her mere presence effected a change in the conduct of all the men there.

If you are using your childhood masturbation technique, you are not developing sexually. We, of course, develop and become more varied.

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

In terms of how much actual use is made of the networked resources, our school's use of the Internet is comparable to that of a university.

In Scotland, writers to the signet, whose chief occupation lies in conducting litigations, are men whose natural qualities fit them for this duty.

I just don't understand under what circumstances other nations will be willing to be drawn into what looks increasingly like a major quagmire.

Clearly, packaging issues alone make it unlikely that this limit can be obtained, even setting aside the difficulties of stability and control.

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

If he had resisted he would have been slain in an instant. This, and the success of the Quakers, however, is obviously peculiar.

I build quantum computers that store information on individual atoms and then massage the normal interactions between the atoms to make them compute.

I don't think there are many allies in NATO who are going to be eager to send lots of troops to Iraq after seeing what happened to American troops.

However, as I mentioned, the tradition comes down in favor of study for its own sake, even if you begin for self-serving reasons.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

And I can also show you that people from all walks of life agree that someone who is sick deserves, in principle, compassion and care.

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

The dollar performs internationally all three functions of money, as a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a standard of value.

The dollar is the main private currency for investment purposes, for transactions purposes, as a vehicle currency as it's called.

The clitoris is ignored. Our mothers weren't told and their mothers' mothers weren't told.

The first people who responded were Arthur Penn and Sally Field and Dennis Hopper and Alec Baldwin and Paul Newman.

The first is, what our studies show is that if kids learn creatively and practically, they learn better, even if the tests are for memory.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.