"I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment."

-- Feisal Abdul Rauf

#Teacher Quotes #New York Quotes #School Quotes

“I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.”
“No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.”
“To John Cena after the fans kept throwing his shirt back in the ring : They didn't throw my shirt back.”
“Iâ€™ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.”
“Our nearly century-long experiment in banning ***** has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing ***** would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.”
“I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.”
“I used to write songs that mimicked other songs that I would hear as a kid, cos I was 12 years old when I was writing those, right. And you hear a radio so all I'd write about was [sings] "hey girl, look at you", you know what I mean. I think that even doing that made it easier for me to write non-personal songs because, from a kid, I never wrote personal songs, they were always like mimicking. And now I'm just trying to understand my writing and where it's coming from.”
“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”

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