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The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts QUOTES

The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts QUOTES

1 " Why she hankered to be a teacher, I couldn't tell you. But she had chalk dust in her veins, and she deserved to get that certificate. It was only fair. "

― Richard Peck , The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

2 " We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him. "

― Richard Peck , The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

3 " The sobs came then, faster than she could swallow. A teacher dares not cry, not a real teacher. "

― Richard Peck , The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

4 " So there is some justice in this world, though not a lot. "

― Richard Peck , The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

5 " I am here to help her learn," Tansy said, "not to keep her from it. "

― Richard Peck , The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

6 " That's the way people is who ain't goin' anyplace in life theirselves. They don't want you goin' anyplace either. "

― Richard Peck , The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

7 " I seen but little of this world,
Except my corner of it;
The city never drew me,
For I knew I could not love it.

What I loved best was watching
The garden getting ripe
And a pouch of sweet tobacco
And my old cob pipe.

What I loved best was a harvest moon
Before a frosty morn
And lamplight in the barn lot
And them long, straight rows of corn.

I was plain and country;
That's where it starts and ends,
But nobody loved her family more,
Or treasured more her friends.

I loved the changing seasons,
And looking for life's reasons,
And honey in the comb,
and home. "

― Richard Peck , The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts