Pail Quotes

Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

— Anne Sexton

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

— Hank Aaron

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

— William Butler Yeats

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

— William Butler Yeats

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

— William Butler Yeats

“At last the bottom fell out. No more water in the pail. No more moon in the water.”

— as the character Wendy John Gould in the short story