34 Quotes by Barbara Lynn-Vannoy

Love is life in search of words, and words are wings that lift us, break us, join us, melt us, like rain.

When you see someone's sacredness, everything changes.

Some things don't deserve a response. Some things don't deserve to live either.

Men. You can't take the Barbie out of the boy.

I belong to a miracle network of game changers known as American public elementary teachers.

When they hear I teach first grade, they invariably picture my kids like a litter of puppies in a pet store window, cute and nearly brainless. Let me tell you. My kids are brilliant. Never underestimate children. I don't teach to their minds. Or their hearts. I teach to their spirits, and not one child has failed me. Ever. I mind-boggle them by reminding them they are made from the remnants of star-dusted constellations. When I tell them this their eyes sparkle to prove it.

I, on the other hand, had no quirks. Quirks require time, which most women have so little of.