Bel Kaufman Quotes

18 quotes in 291 categories

• Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
• When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
• To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all…
• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the…
• People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
• I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just…
• I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is…
• Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t…
• Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
• Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
• I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at…
• The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
• I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe
• To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
• The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.
• I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and…
• ... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

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