#cher

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ↗

— Charles W. Eliot

#books #constant #counsellors #friends #most

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#pentecostal #preacher

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#collaborative #dig #everyone #feel #get

Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#germany #hate #integration #little #long

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. ↗

— John Gray

#empowered #feel #men #motivated #needed

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#chalk #challenges #change #just #lives

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#close #club #come #could #cynicism

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount. ↗

— Donald Norman

#create #does #good #good teacher #just

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#daughter #i #important #liked #school

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#controlled #corporation #farmers #golden #i