Brian Francis quotes

“It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.”
-- Brian Francis

Source : Brian Francis (2004). “Fruit: A Novel about a Boy and His Nipples”, p.246, ECW Press

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“We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.”
-- Brian Francis

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“Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.”
-- Brian Francis

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“The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.”
-- Brian Francis

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“The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.”
-- Brian Francis

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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.”

“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”

“Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”

“Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.”

“There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.”

“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”

“I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.”

“This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.”

“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”