109 quotes found
“Educators are in the news, too. Usually thats bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, youre probably going to jail.”
“Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had ...”
“The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring...”
“It was only a couple of chickens. Real chickens. The kind that walk around clucking and pecking. Which is what they were doing. Only no one else seemed to care, or even notice. This is normal? Obvi...”
“The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.”
“An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.”
“Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?'I thought about a humanities teacher Id worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher Id worked with in Germany. I said, 'I t...”
“Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey...”
“Sami and I had exactly one day together in the old world. On Tuesday the jihadists came to our front door and knocked down our buildings. Our new world was hijacked planes, anthrax, and Afghanistan...”
“For the first time in a decade I felt a voice rising from deep inside my soul. It cried out what will you be today? and I heard relentless booming from the rafters inside an old gym as Sami and a g...”
“It feels like last week, but in fact were now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old soccer stud ... and yet there are soldiers in Afghanistan today who w...”
“Im sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotelbut he was a complete stranger to me and the truth is that being vigilant isnt a part-time job, its not about being n...”
“Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their familiesand DOD schools provide a world-class education that has proven time and again to be an incentive for sailors, so...”
“As calls rang out the world over for new treaties and organizations to be established with the intent of preventing future wars, America and her allies took a more realistic approach to the problem...”
“They were worried about keeping military families strong. They were worried about the stress and strain of prolonged military service and how it would affect our military readiness the next time a ...”
“Im clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.”
“Itd be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. Its really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how ...”
“In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.”
“The last two days Ive been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on wooden boats, traversing currents into a different century. Its late a...”
“I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. Theyll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.”
