Lois Aileen Bey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

  • If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

  • If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

  • A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

  • Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.

  • At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

  • You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

  • All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

  • To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

  • Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

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