Shirley Mount Hufstedler Famous Quotes



I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.


Shirley Mount Hufstedler Quotations






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Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul
John Keats

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
Aristotle

"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."
Katherine Anne Porter

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran

"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."
B A Billingsly

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.
Epictetus

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
Jerry Chin