Quotes About Impact

It was astonishing how much meaning could be crammed into a single word. How did such words not crumble under their own weight?

Tess had been unaware of leaving anything behind, but to hear Jacomo tell it, he'd played a long, slow game of connect-the-dots, and each dot had been a kindness, farm chores, laughter, a story told. She'd passed through the world, and the world had remembered.

Frightening, isn't it? That something I decide today impacts future generations. Beyond my own flesh and blood.

death, she still was the most

In fifty years, no one will remember anything but your good works, the strength of your reign, and your love for your wife.

I started falling for you as soon as you bumped into me. I knew I could be a goner so easily." "Really?" "Oh, yeah. And when I pictured you in shoulder pads and a helmet--" I shoved his shoulder. "You did not!" "Oh, yeah, I did. And I thought, of all the girls in this town, she is the one that I absolutely can't find fascinating.

Do you wonder, ever," said Ester quietly, "whether our own will alters anything? Or whether we're determined to be as we are by the very working of the world?

I was a kid. I didn't know about love, that you see someone and whether or not they say much, they make the world suddenly different, a mysterious and more alive place that you can access only through them. And the new, better world falls lifeless and flat when they go away.

As a human being, I know I can never hope to have the depth and breadth of perspective to know whether any of my actions will ultimately harm or heal.

These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for a while, and give us a deeper understanding of what is truly important in this life. They touch our souls. We gain strength from the footprints they have left on our hearts, and we will never EVER be the same.

When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though sometimes in ways she wished against" Lynnie p 228-229

Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas.

May my existence change the world no more nor less than the gusting of wind or the proud growth of trees

And there went the neighborhood.

I didn't realize that many people, who may be good people, feel that working in schools is just a job and not a holy mission.

Unfortunately working hard doesn't necessarily make someone an effective teacher.

I thought to myself that if I could care so much about teaching that I didn't even realize my hair was burning, I was moving in the right direction. From that moment, I resolved to always teach like my hair was on fire.

We teachers are all boxers. We get hit a lot. I've been knocked down so many times I'm often woozy. But I've learned something in...the classroom: all teachers, even the best ones, get knocked down. The difference between the best ones and the others is that the best ones always get up to answer the bell. May you always get up. It is a child ringing the bell, and he needs your help.

Indeed, we came to believe that the more informal education that families provide for their children makes more of an impact on a child's total education than the formal educational system. If a family does its job well, the professional can then provide effective training. If not, there may be little a professional can do to save a child from mediocrity.

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

And—I don't know—I guess words can't kill you, but I'm afraid that they can. I'm afraid one day someone will say something that destroys me.

there will be but one feeling throughout the army, a feeling that our prestige is gone, and that feeling will be more dangerous than any other.

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.