Students Quotes · Page 79

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens…

— Rumi

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I…

— Nicholas Braun

“I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.”

— Ana Monnar

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise…

— Godfrey Reggio

Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

— Lincoln Chafee

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the…

— Will Smith

Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.

— Sebastian Thrun

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate…

— William Westmoreland

And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact,…

— Barack Obama

I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of…

— George Bernard Shaw

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things…

— Terry Eagleton

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've…

— Sarah Churchwell

Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me…

— Nicole Holofcener

For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language…

— James Avery

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is…

— Jay Maisel

Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student.…

— Wayne Allyn Root

Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse…

— Laurence Steinberg

The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later…

— Manning Marable

John asked me to dance and I nearly died. Bingo! I then amazed myself by being very cool, calm and collected outwardly-inside…

— Cynthia Lennon

The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do…

— Ronald Ross

Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you…

— Alexandre Borovik

My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary…

— Holland Roden

Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.

— Charles Best

Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young…

— Barack Obama

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their…

— Stephen Brookfield

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very…

— Thom Gunn

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

— Merce Cunningham

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells…

— Ace Antonio Hall

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for…

— Alma Gluck

That moment when your teacher forgets you have homework, but then that one kid says, 'We have homework.'

— Anonymous

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student…

— Pope Francis

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for…

— Carol Gilligan

One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.

— Tony Danza

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

— Jill Stein

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to…

— Camille Paglia

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic…

— Jeb Bush

We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just…

— Elizabeth Warren

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

— Kurt Vonnegut