"There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher."

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Source : Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.459, Open Road Media

Pat Conroy

#Teacher Quotes #Kids Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.”
“Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.”
“I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.”
“You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.”

Source : Song: I Go to Work
“The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.”
“You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.”
“I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.”
“Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.”

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