I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
BEL KAUFMANI feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don’t have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don’t want to do it. What a liberating word.
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I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.
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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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And that’s it; that’s why I want to teach; that’s the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
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