#Inspiring Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Conversation Quotes
“The motive power of democracy is love”
“Before I speak, I have something important to say.”
“A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.”
“I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.”
“In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down...”
“And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.”
“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust--to sing out your song for everyone to hear.”
“Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.”
Frank Smith Author
James K. Baxter Poet
Janet Frame Author
Jim Trelease Author
Marilyn Jager Adams
Richard Allington
Sylvia Ashton-Warner Writer
Brian Boyd Author