{"author":"Tucker Elliot","author_id":"Tucker+Elliot","total_quotes":77,"quotes":[{"text":"I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","christianity","education","indonesia","islam","jakarta","teaching","terrorism","travel"],"id":4841,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful—rather, it’s this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["education","indonesia","jakarta","leadership","students","teaching","vietnam-war"],"id":7369,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"The only thing worse than his arrogance was his incompetence. He was a bully, behaving like an ass. I saw Angel though, not him. The memorial was right there, just outside the window. It’s in the flowers, and it makes me angry. Angel liked to sit on the couch, watch TV, eat chips. She hated outside. Maybe I should have been a bully and an ass to Angel’s parents. Maybe Angel and Grace would still be alive if I’d behaved like this piece of shit teacher.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","9-11-01","afghanistan","dodds","education","germany","iraq","korea","military","terrorism","tucker-elliot"],"id":9954,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["america","christianity","islam","religion","violence","war"],"id":14547,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","9-11-10th-anniversary","afghanistan","dodds","education","germany","iraq","korea","military","terrorism","tucker-elliot"],"id":34442,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where children are taught hatred. I’ve seen it up close and personal. It’s antithetical to everything I believe in as a teacher. The mandate for all teachers is to instill hope, not fear and hatred.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["education","fear","hatred","hope","indonesia","orphans","students","teaching","vietnam"],"id":39570,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","afghanistan","dodds","education","germany","iraq","korea","military","terrorism","tucker-elliot"],"id":39817,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"God does not care where you pray. He only cares what is in your heart.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["christianity","islam","religion","war"],"id":50591,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"Korea is often called the “Land of the Morning Calm.” It’s a country where you notice the filth and the smog on your first trip and you can’t imagine why you ever thought it was a good idea to visit. Then you meet the people and you walk among their culture and you get a sense there is something deeper beneath the surface, and before you know it, the smog doesn’t matter and the filth is gone—and in its place there is incredible beauty. The sun rises first over Japan, and as Korea is waiting for the earth to spin, for streaks of light to brighten its eastern sky, in that quiet moment there is a calmness that makes Korea the most beautiful country in the world.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","afghanistan","dodds","education","germany","iraq","korea","military","terrorism","tucker-elliot"],"id":51202,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","afghanistan","dodds","education","germany","iraq","korea","military","terrorism","tucker-elliot"],"id":52378,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}