#ma

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#before #day #eager #excited #first

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance. ↗

— Kate Smith

#first #i #make #most #second

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#basic #basic human rights #constitution #deal #human

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#been #best #deals #exactly #faith

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#marriage #mind #mindfulness #philosophy #theology

Carlos, are we in complete understanding with each other?” “Yeah,” I say. “As long as it’s not in your house and you don’t know about it, you’re okay with us messin’ around.” “I know you’re joking with me. You are joking with me, aren’t you?” “Maybe. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny

Imogene always sits on the remote. It’s probably wedged between her butt cheeks.” “Should I go get a crowbar? ↗

— Kirsten Miller

#paranormal-romance #funny

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#been #better #does #fertile #genius

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#chains #hold #hundreds #marriage #people

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#good #good taste #him #husband #i