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John Barton Quotes

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: canadian

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Write Dramatic Pull Poets Resist

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

Creative School College High School

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Nature Spark Stone Moral More She

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Child Learn Wish Important Much

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

Future People Think America Young

During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.

Robert Richardson

Life Service Focus Sleep You Lose

I will be the first to admit that the sanctity of life and the preservation of religious freedom are not even among the top ten concerns of most voters. But those issues should be of primary importance to those who call themselves Christians.

Robert Jeffress

Life Freedom Admit Will First Top

I dabbled in puppetry throughout college and even had my own traveling puppet show after I graduated.

College My Own Own Show Puppet Even

Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange creature he is.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Family Father Story Fall Strange He

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Education Good Teacher Quality Small

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Dinah Maria Mulock

Day Catch Odd Minutes Astonishing

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

Music Art Easy Attention Marketing

I wouldn't say that it's hard for sisters to treat each other with respect. Many do.

Respect Treat Say Hard Many Sisters

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