Spped Quotes

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge,

passion and compassion.

Friendship with a man

is friendship with

his virtue.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

Laughter is not at all

a bad beginning for

a friendship, and

it is far the best

ending for one.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts;

differences will always be there.

Peace means solving these differences

through peaceful means.

Fight for the things that you care about,

but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

We should not be satisfied with success

if it leaves us blind to the possibilities beyond.

In the end,

we are our choices.

Build yourself a great story.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow;

there is no humor in Heaven.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of

a palace has an animal nature,

rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

All you have to do is write one true sentence.

Write the truest sentence that you know.

Part of the secret of a success in life

is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God

who has endowed us with sense, reason,

and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

I have always found that mercy bears

richer fruits than strict justice.

We don’t win anymore.

But we’re going to start winning again.