Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
~sayings about educational by Author Unknown

Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative.
~quotes about History by John Clive, Not By Fact Alone

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
~educational motivational quotes by Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
~saying on Gardens by Evelyn Underhill, Letters

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
~educational motivational quotes by Mark Twain

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

“What is home without a mother?”
~ Alice Hawthorne

“On Mother’s Day a minister gave this perfect tribute: “My mother practices what I preach.”
~ Capper’s weekly

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
~ David O. McKay

“Healthy families are our greatest national resource.”
~ Dolores Curran

A man with a plan can outstrip ten without one.
~saying on Creativity by

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man’s existence.
~inspirational love saying by Joseph Wood Krutch

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
~love by Author Unknown

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
~sayings about love by P.J. O’Rourke

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
~quotes about Chakras by Source Unknown

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

College professor–someone who talks in other people’s sleep.

Education is the best provision for old age.

You know that point at your graduation ceremony where everyone throws their caps ? Isn’t it great that we all celebrate how smart we are by throwing sharp pointy objects in the air.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.  ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.  ~Author Unknown

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  ~Mark Twain

How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  ~Thornton Wilder

Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.  ~Gene Perret

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.  ~Robert Half

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.  ~J. Lubbock

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you’re still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.  ~Author Unknown

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.  ~George Foreman

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache… unless you play golf.  ~Gene Perret

All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That’s his.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.  ~T. DeWitt Talmage

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.  ~Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”


The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.  ~Author Unknown

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.  ~Alexander the Great

It’s easy to make a buck.  It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.  ~Tom Brokaw

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.  ~Helen Peters

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.  ~Author Unknown

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.  ~Jean de La Bruyere

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.  ~Christian Nestell Bovee

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.  ~Frederick Keonig

Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.  ~Emily Logan Decens

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.  ~Berke Breathed

Happiness is the soundtrack of my life.  ~Grey Livingston

Happiness?  That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.  ~Albert Schweitzer

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  ~G.K. Chesterton

You say grace before meals.  All right.  But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.  ~G.K. Chesterton

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.  ~Frank A. Clark

The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal.  It’s a way to live.  ~Jackie Windspear

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