inspirational quotes about education

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. ~Evelyn Cunningham



A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams



I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift



Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood



A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. ~Lord Halifax



It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ~Robert Lynd



You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ~Charles Kuralt



It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown



How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it! ~J.N. Larned



If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis



Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 79



The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses. ~Henry Van Dyke



When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice. ~Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensees, 1872



If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark



The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain



Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. ~Ross Perot



A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"



Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford



When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees. ~Wintu Indian, quoted in Julian Burger, The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples, 1990



Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ~Joan Baez, "Sexism Seen but not Heard," Los Angeles Times, 1974