"The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped."

-- Theodore Roethke

#Teaching Quotes #Damage Quotes #Contact Quotes

“Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.”

Source : "Alex Trebek, 71, says leaving 'Jeopardy' not in the cards, for now". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2012.
“Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”
“I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the world, baby girl!: a novel”, Vintage
“The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.”

Source : Mary Ellen Snodgrass (1992). “Late Achievers: Famous People who Succeeded Late in Life”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated
“Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.”

Source : Bernice L. McFadden (2015). “The Bernice L. McFadden Collection: Gathering of Waters, Glorious, The Warmest December, and Nowhere Is a Place”, p.11, Akashic Books
“See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.”
“I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.”

Source : "Housman 1897-1936". Book by Grant Richards, p. 100, 1942.

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