38 Quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

The merciful Providence - or whatever power there is in the universe - has so ordained things that our little world will go on without us. Indeed, it will not miss us for long. It is a comfort to know that the waters close over us quickly. Only a few remember the splash and struggle, and fancy it important, really....I daresay we are making all this fuss for nothing.

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

You can’t touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.