"A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect."

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Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.255, Open Road Media

Bel Kaufman

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“Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework.”
“The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.89, Paulist Press
“The secret to scooping ice cream is all about the scooper. You have to dip it in water before and after every scoop. Then it just rolls off.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.”
“You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.”
“I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't.”

Source : Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.”
“Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.”

Source : Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan

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