"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

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Source : Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

Fawn M. Brodie

#Teacher Quotes #Retirement Quotes #Wall Quotes

“When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.”
“At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.”
“I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.”
“The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.”
“The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.”
“Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.”
“People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.”
“From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.”

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