poems for teachers

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ~Author Unknown



The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb



From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ~Edvard Munch



The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~Betty Friedan



The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished. ~Author Unknown



The men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room. ~J.K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, 1977



The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. ~Henry Maudsley



Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?" ~Bill Watterson



Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator. ~Richard Pratt



The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. ~Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945



Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russel Lowell



A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. ~Henry David Thoreau



We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk



Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ~Louisa May Alcott



If God dropped acid, would he see people? ~Steven Wright



We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~Mother Teresa We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. ~Pearl Buck



An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ~Pliny the Younger, Letters



I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. ~W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919



The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown



The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. ~Author Unknown