Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1949

Topics

TeacherCountryDoneWriteStudents

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Michael Heizer

MeViewEnvironmentLandscapeDown

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

Amanda Peet

SchoolPeopleThinkThoughtBoy

One of the things that I just kind of became very enthusiastic about, and wanted to learn more about it, is how God saves.

Trip Lee

GodLearnKindMoreThingsJust

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

Robin Gross

BalanceArtistRightsProtection

My favorite color is jungle green. At least, that's what it said on the side of my favorite crayon in first grade. I don't know if it's an official color.

Mike Posner

GreenColorJungleKnowSaidFirst

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

IgnoranceInnocenceUsCharms

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.

Jason Alexander

WorkLoveChangeWorldSelfish

If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

Derrick Jensen

YourselfYouSeeingSeeTakeGoing

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.

Christine Pelosi

ServiceBestSupportPeopleAdvice

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Colin Powell

PowerSlaveryYouEarlyHouseSay

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

Clifford Geertz

GreatAnxietyMatterNeverReal

We were like bishops of opposite color.

Boris Spassky

ColorOppositeLikeWereBishops

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