"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Life Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Teacher Quotes

“There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.”
“It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.64, Macmillan
“I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.”
“Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.”
“I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.”
“I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.”
“The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman canâ€™t think for herself”

Source : David Henry Hwang (1989). “M. Butterfly”, Plume
“I don't want to be a Major League coach.”

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