"Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled."

-- Solomon Ortiz

#Teacher Quotes #Talking Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.”
“I have always maintained that if you work hard, it wont go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.”
“I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.”

Source : Toby Hemenway (2009). “Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture”, p.175, Chelsea Green Publishing
“From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloomâ€¦It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.”
“In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map thatâ€”when properly read and followedâ€”reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.”
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchâ€”the wheel, New York, wars and so onâ€”whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than manâ€”for precisely the same reasons.”

Source : Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan
“I have no prejudice against male or female.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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