Dave Eggers Quotes & Sayings
64 most famous Dave Eggers quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 54 year old American writer born on Mar 12, 1970.
“I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.”
“Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.”
“So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.”
“It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.”
“Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.”
“Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.”
“You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.”
“I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.”
“I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.”
“But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.”
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