Tea Quotes

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
Louis D. Brandeis
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren Bennis
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian
Author unknown - children are natural mimics; they act like their...
Thomas carruthers - a teacher is one who makes himself progressively...
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
Gloria Steinem
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Gustav Jung
We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves.
Prophet Joseph Smith
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
Kwan - Tzu
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Jim boulton - baseball players are smarter than football...
The revolution is not a tea party.
Mao Tse - Tung
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
Ed Howe
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Ellen Gilcrist
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Edith Ann
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.
I Ching
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Anonymous
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
Jerry Coleman
If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
Barbara Colorose
You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.
Galileo Galilei
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca