inspirational quotes on education

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. ~Hinton R. Helper


A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. ~George William Curtis


Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. ~Anne Sexton


We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham Lincoln


Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26 Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation. ~Colette, Gigi, 1944, translated


Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. ~Don Marquis


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit


After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. ~James Howell


Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake. ~Marie Ray


I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? ~John Lennon


The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919


A large heart can be filled with very little. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. ~Charles Luckman


Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude. ~Author Unknown


Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb


The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one. ~Author Unknown


The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb