Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
Jeannette WallsTag: teachers education-quotes
At the same time, Dad was working on a book arguing the case for phonetic spelling. He called it 'A Ghoti out of Water.' "Ghoti," he liked to point out, could be pronounced like "fish." The "gh" had the "f" sound in "enough," the "o" had the short "i" sound in "women," and "ti" had the "sh" sound in "nation.
Jeannette WallsNew Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
Jeannette WallsTag: funny
The road was called Agnes weeps, after the town's first schoolteacher, who had burst into tears when she saw how plunging and twisting the road was and realized how remote the town must be. But from the first moment I laid eyes on it, I loved that road. I thought of it as a winding staircase taking me out of the traffic jams, news bulletins, bureaucrats, air-raid sirens and locked doors of city life. Jim said we should rename the road Lilly sings.
Jeannette WallsThe place where you live - your home - is one of the most important things in a body's life.
Jeannette WallsWhen someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
Jeannette WallsTag: inspirational
If you get down, all you need to do is act like you're feeling good, and next thing you know, you are.
Jeannette WallsSubmitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?
Jeannette WallsTag: belief god religion hard-work
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
Jeannette WallsGod deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
Jeannette WallsTag: life god hands game cards
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