May 2012
1 post
February 2012
22 posts
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who...”
– Frank Serafini (via booksandnerds)
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick; I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (via wordpainting)
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for...”
– Malcolm X (via creatingaquietmind)
I am so gonna use this quote in one of my To Kill a Mockingbird lessons.
“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you...”
– Mortimer Adler (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change...”
– Viktor E. Frankl (via amandaonwriting)
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to...”
– Richard P. Feynman (via creatingaquietmind)
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
– Alfred Hitchcock (via thegirlandherbooks)
“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thegirlandherbooks)
“Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about...”
– Lawrence H. Summers | “What You (Really) Need to Know” (via thelibrarianontherun)
I couldn’t agree more.
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...”
– Ayn Rand (via misswallflower)
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel,...”
– Angela Carter (via kerryquotesquotes)
Interesting point.
January 2012
10 posts
“I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via thebookishdark)
This book has me thinking about so much. And to think I almost abandoned it. I kinda have a feeling that this book’s impact isn’t found on the pages but in the questions it leaves you with after you read.
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant....”
– Albert Einstein (via michellenotmarie)
Nerd.
I would like to experience a midnight in Paris.
“To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., The Purpose of Education (via positivelypersistentteach)
WatchMove, Shake, Drop…yeah, the girls rocked it tonight. CHJN Dance Team
December 2011
29 posts
“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do....”
– Make Your Kid A Writer (via creatingaquietmind)
“Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around...”
– Nicholson Baker on copying out passages of your favorite books by hand (via austinkleon)
As a teacher, my one hope is for the students to truly grasp how important this is…how much it can teach them and how much they can learn.
“All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via moldavia)
Hmmm….I relate but not sure I’m glad that I do.
“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of...”
– Leave Me Alone I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan (via readingforaliving)
“Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have...”
– Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men (via prettybooks)