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Notes & Quotes
Quotes:
for the New Semester
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams , 1907.
“ If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
Derek Bok, President of Harvard University .
“ The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
Diogenes (the Cynic) as quoted in Diogenes Laertius,Lives of Eminent Philosophers , 3 rd century A.D.
“Education, c'est delivrance.” (“Education is freedom”).
Andre Gide, Journals , 1948-51.
February is African American History Month…
“I had reasoned this out in my mind: There was two things I had a right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive.”
Harriet Tubman , quoted in Harriet, the Moses of Her People , by Sarah H. Bradford , 1869.
“I have learned one thing over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
Rosa Parks , civil rights pioneer, who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955 .
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Maya Angelou, poet and author.
“All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone, it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors, but because he was a hero.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball athlete.
March is Women's History Month…
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!”
Sojourner Truth , Women's Rights Convention, Akron Ohio , May 29, 1851 .
“Helmer: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother.
Nora: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost, I am an individual, just as much as you are.”
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright, A Doll's House , 1879.
“The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.”
Mary McLeod Bethune, American author, A Century of Progress of Negro Women , 1933.
“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”
Simone de Beauvoir , French author, The Second Sex, 1949.
April is National Poetry Month…
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
Leonardo da Vinci , Italian artist, in his Treatise on Painting.
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity – it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”
John Keats , British poet, in his letter to John Taylor, Feb. 27, 1818 .
“The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”
Jean Cocteau, French writer, in Newsweek , April 7, 1958 .
“The poem…is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see – it is, rather a light by which we may see – and what we see is life.”
Robert Penn Warren , American author, Saturday Review , March 22, 1958 .
