Sunday, 7 October 2012
Saturday, 6 October 2012
What we teachers secretly hope for
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)
Friday, 5 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Point de fuite
"In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away."
T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Enough time
"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die."
William Wiley, artist (b. 1937)
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Citation qui mérite qu'on s'y attarde
"La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain."
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
Monday, 1 October 2012
Burning
"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned."
Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (1797-1856)
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