Breakdown Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild.”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breakdown Students
“We are all made of broken glass. The school grinds along on grief and anger.” — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“Breakaway students are moving (actually often wrenching themselves) away from where they were to where they can be. Some succeed. Others do not.” — Karen Gross Copy Share Image
“the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot.” In” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a history, a… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people cry, not because they are weak...but because they’ve gone a long time at being strong.” — Wulf Francú Godgluck Copy Share Image
“College is so awesome! It's really too bad they try to ruin it with classes!” — Jillian Dodd Copy Share Image
“If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
“It is said that to this day that educational establishment still bears the scars of their activities.” — William Horwood Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room. — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family,… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns. — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require. — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image