"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots."

-- Thurgood Marshall

#Teacher Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Retirement Quotes

“Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.”
“Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.”

Source : Bobby Bowden, Steve Bowden (2001). “The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom”, p.121, Taylor Trade Publications
“Love is the very essence of life.”
“The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.”

Source : "Ellen Page: 'I'm totally pro-choice. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.
“My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.”
“Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.”
“That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.”

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