"My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky."

-- Sam Abell

#Mother Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Brother Quotes

“There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.”
“I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?”
“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.”
“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”

Source : George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.1, University of Missouri Press
“In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture at Harvard in 1958. "The Rhetoric of Our Times" by J. Jeffery Auer, p. 124, 1969.
“The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.”
“'m a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.”
“As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.”

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