Food for Thought!

I love quotes! (Maybe it's the English teacher in me?) Check this page often for quotes I feel like sharing -- maybe they'll be about reading or writing...maybe they'll just be about life! If you have one you'd like to share, send it to me, and I'll do my best to put it up on the site!

Quotes Regarding Language Arts

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say". ~Anaïs Nin

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." ~Anton Chekhov

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." ~Orson Scott Card

"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable." ~Francis Bacon

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." ~James Bryce

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." ~Chinese Proverb

Quotes Regarding Life

"According to all known laws of aviation, there's no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wing are too small to lift its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway - because bees don't care what humans think is impossible." ~The Bee Movie

"Character is much easier kept than recovered." ~Thomas Paine

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence." ~Author Unknown

"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am." ~Author Unknown

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." ~Will Rogers

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success." ~Author Unknown

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." ~H.E. Luccock

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side." ~Margaret Carty