A lot of people think we are a total magnet school, ... Really, we are an elementary school with a magnet component. It's kind of like we have two schools under one roof. We have Program A, which is the neighborhood school, and Program B, which is the arts magnet school. |
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough. |
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom |
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. |
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else? |
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. |
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in |
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. |
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -- but there was no one to tell me. |
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you. |
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. |
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. |
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us. |
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind |
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise |