"â€¦I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.â€ (p.275)"

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Mark Nepo

#Teacher Quotes #Sky Quotes #Water Quotes

“I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just likeÂ Angry Birds, but big [as] life.”
“The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.”
“Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.”

Source : Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”
“Sir, will you marry me?”
“The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.”
“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”

Source : "Fictional character: Antonius Block". "The Seventh Seal", 1957.
“When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.”
“We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.”

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