“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
Mario Cuomo
“A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees”
Benjamin Franklin
“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.”
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”
William Penn
“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
William Adams (explorer)
“He was unusual in the fact that he was also an excellent (math) teacher. In those days, most coaches taught P.E.”
Phil Jackson
“He's a model prisoner. He taught. He did this, he did that. He coached. He taught. He worked out. .?.?. I think he's going to be a productive member of society.”
Diane Polan
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