A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, It’s not warm when she’s away, Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, And she’s always gone too long, Anytime she goes away.
Bill Withers

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
Tom Coburn

Anyone’s life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry

Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
Cecilia Bartoli

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Drew Barrymore

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.
Euripides

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.
Alvin Dark

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We’re out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.
Hilary Rosen

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
Marie Corelli

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
Robert Ley

Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
Anne Bronte

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don’t try selling sunshine and light – you’ll go broke.
Chuck Jones

I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use ‘a little Texas sunshine.’
John Cornyn

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.
Lesley Garrett

I don’t know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it’s pouring rain and then it’s hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It’s just so confusing.
Piper Perabo

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
Diogenes

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.
Frank Leslie

I’ve been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
Luther Allison

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane

It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Romain Rolland

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I’d ever seen, that California sunshine.
Angela Carter

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

A life without love is like a year without summer.
– Swedish Proverb

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
– James Dent

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
– St. Francis of Assisi

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
– Russel Baker

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
– Joseph Wood Krutch

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
– William Law

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
– Kahlil Gibran

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
– Erma Bombeck

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
– Rupert Brooke

Celebrate Summer – Sun drenched days and starlit nights…
– Gooseberry Patch

Colored scents that fill the air as drowsy insects hum around in the meadow is the place of secret magic where nature alone renews itself.
– Kate Bergquist

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
– Sam Keen

Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?
– Bev Adams

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
– Sydney Smith

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
– Robert Bridges

I live on an island and listen to jazz all day long. The sun is always shining, but you can still see the stars. The breeze sings astonishingly like Ella and the wind rumbles in a Louis way. My friends and I dance under magic skies.
– Author Unknown

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
– John Vance Cheney

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
– L. M. Montgomery

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
– Bern Williams

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
– Aldo Leopold

In summer, the song sings itself.
– William Carlos Williams

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
– John Cheever

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
– Hal Borland

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
– Thomas Browne

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year – it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
– Author Unknown

No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
– Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode

Oh, bring again my heart’s content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
– William Allingham

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
– Barry Cornwall

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
– Anton Chekhov

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
– John Lubbock

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
– Warren Buffett

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
– Henry James

Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and “green-robed senators of mighty woods” are clothed in their most elegant array.
– Author Unknown

Summer is delicious. [rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
– John Ruskin

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
– Ada Louise Huxtable

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
– Francis Thompson

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
– James Russell Lowell

The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus, and the bass solo of the croaking Frog – a summer night’s serenade.
– Michael P. Garofalo

The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.
– Francis Thompson

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
– Wallace Stevens

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
– Celia Thaxter

To believe in life is to believe there will always be someone who will water the geraniums.
– Flavia

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
– Emily Dickinson

We are much more likely to experience a sense of plenty when we are relaxed.
– SARK

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
– Jane Austen

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
– Gertrude Jekyll

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
– James Russell Lowell

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That’s because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
– Roy Blount Jr.

Who has not dreamed a world of bliss on a bright, sunny noon like this?
– William Howitt

Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.
– Andrea Willis

You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.– Author Unknown

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
Charles Perrault

After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.
Peter Mayhew

Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
Gavin MacLeod

As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.
Barbara Kruger

Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her… James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work.
Ben Gazzara

Being a princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Princess Diana

But it’s a Broadway show, so even if you’re Christine in Phantom, you’re still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they’re Disney princesses or not.
Christy Romano

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
Lorna Luft

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana’s funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.
Mark Roberts

I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
Lalla Ward

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. Forester

I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I’ve had far more experiences.
Deborah Cox

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
Ewan McGregor

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
Christopher Atkins

I think I’m going to put together a compilation under Disney’s name of my songs that I’ve done for them – because I’ve done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that’s the next thing that’s coming out.
Christy Romano

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Lisa Marie Presley

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.
Max Muller

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on… and The Princess Diaries was born!
Meg Cabot

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.
John Deacon

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
Madeleine Albright

i never promissed you a happy ending.
you never said that you wouldn’t make me cry
but summer love will keep us warm,
long after our autumn goodbye

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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
Ada Louise Huxtable

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn’t it? We can’t let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York; And all the clouds that lowered upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
William Shakespeare

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.
Helen Hunt Jackson

This summer is going to be really crazy with changes and shifts all over the place.
Bill Badgar

Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne.
Barry Cornwall

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
Violette Leduc

sunny days, party nights, hot guys
water fights, pretty hair, tanned skin
schools out summers in.

Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.
Thomas Hardy

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.  My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.  It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.  ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.  ~Russel Baker

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.  ~James Dent

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.  ~Bern Williams

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.  ~Gertrude Jekyll

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.  No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.  ~Aldo Leopold

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
~John Vance Cheney

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.  ~Albert Camus

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.  ~Celia Thaxter

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.  ~Wallace Stevens

In summer, the song sings itself.  ~William Carlos Williams

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.  ~Sam Keen

Summer has set in with its usual severity.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.  ~Anton Chekhov

A life without love is like a year without summer.  ~Swedish Proverb

Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
nourishing Night!
Night of south winds!  Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night!  Mad, naked, Summer Night!
~Walt Whitman

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation.  If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.  ~Erma Bombeck

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.  ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.  ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.  ~John Lubbock

No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.  ~Henry James

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year – it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.  ~Author Unknown

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.  ~Ada Louise Huxtable

This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.  ~Sarah Orne Jewett

Every day is Earth Day.  ~Author Unknown

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.  ~A Chieftan from Nigeria

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.  ~Native American Proverb

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.  We are all crew.  ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.  ~Henry David Thoreau

There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.  ~Robert Orben

I’m not an environmentalist.  I’m an Earth warrior.  ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.  ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987

For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature.  Now we’re beating it to death.  ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.  ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains:  The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.  ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.  If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it’s taken personally.  Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power.  His fairness.  His very existence.  But if a world mother doesn’t reply, Her excuse is simple.  She never claimed conceited omnipotence.  She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves.  To Her elder offspring She says – go raid the fridge.  Go play outside.  Go get a job.  Or, better yet, lend me a hand.  I have no time for idle whining.  ~David Brin

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.  ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound together.  All things connect.  ~Chief Seattle, 1855

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple.  It is man who complicates it.  ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader’s Digest, July 1972

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.  ~Pam Shaw

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.  ~John Muir

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
~George Carlin

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.  ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.  ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here?  ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.  ~Juvenal, Satires

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.  ~Brooke Medicine Eagle

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.  ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.  ~William Shakespeare

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.  ~Cree Indian Proverb

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  ~Edgar W. Howe

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation.  If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.  ~Erma Bombeck

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.  It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.  ~Bill Dodds

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so.  After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.  ~Margaret Laurence

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.  ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse, 1883

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  ~John Dewey

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.  ~Author Unknown

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

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.  That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.  ~Author Unknown

There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August.  ~Author Unknown

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.  ~Ralph W. Sockman

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.  ~George Bernard Shaw

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  ~Aristotle

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.  ~W.H. Auden

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she’s looking at.  ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  ~Robert Gallagher

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.  ~Mark Twain

It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it.  ~Finley Peter Dunne

You can get all A’s and still flunk life.  ~Walker Percy

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  ~Albert Einstein

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.  ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  ~Edward Everett

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?  ~Erich Fromm

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge.  Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.  ~Martin H. Fischer

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.  ~William Haley

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.  ~Doug Larson

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.  ~Malcolm S. Forbes

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.  ~Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist,” 1890

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.  ~Peter Drucker

Education is the movement from darkness to light.  ~Allan Bloom

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.  All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.  ~John W. Gardner

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.  ~William Butler Yeats

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver.  Then they would really be educated.  ~Al McGuire

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.  ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents

The founding fathers… provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education.  School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.  ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.  ~Bishop Mandell Creighton

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.  ~Clay P. Bedford

When the student is ready, the master appears.  ~Buddhist Proverb

You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ~Ray LeBlond

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.  ~Mohammed

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  ~Chinese Proverb

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.  ~Martin H. Fischer

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.  ~Winston Churchill

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.  ~Mortimer Adler

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.  ~Thomas Szasz

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.  ~Bernard Keble Sandwell

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.  ~Dana Stewart Scott

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.  ~Alvin Toffler

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.  ~Donald D. Quinn

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  ~Henry Brooks Adams

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.  ~Kahlil Gibran