Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I have an awfully good life.

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Ive always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

Ive always said that in politics your enemies cant hurt you but your friends will kill you.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of it's size until I campaigned it.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.