"Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study."

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Source : Hugh Miller (1858). “My Schools and Schoolmasters: Or, The Story of My Education”, p.562

Hugh Miller

#School Quotes #Study Quotes #School Life Quotes

“The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.”
“Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.”
“It's like deja-vu, all over again.”
“The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.”

Source : Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Lesschaeve (1985). “The Dancer and the Dance”, Marion Boyars
“God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.”
“The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.”

Source : "Red meat from T-Paw" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. June 6, 2009.
“The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.”
“I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.”

Source : Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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