#tea

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#else #everything #first #him #how

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#answers #children #everything #him #how

I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country. ↗

— David Plouffe

#backbone #campaign #celebrated #contributed #country

Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice. ↗

— Kate Horsley

#freedom #power #teaching #truth #art

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#get #girl #i #instead #never

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#am #any #around #been #could

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#genius #longer #rules #taste #teach

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#buddhist #central #compassion #core #fact

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#end #first-rate #gershwin #instead #lose