Here is a list of my favorite quotes. One interesting thing I have my students do at the beginning of each class period is called "Free Writing." I know, it's nothing knew, but it really helps me to get to know them better when I collect and read them! And it helps them get their thoughts out on paper.
1. Write non-stop for at least 5-10 minutes.
2. Write about a picture, quote, prompt, or whatever else is given, OR write about anything you want to. Write your train of thought. If you cannot think of anything to write, just write the same word over and over, "I don't know what to write....," or something else until you can think of something.
Here is a list of quotes, sayings, writing prompts, and other things I have collected througout the years. Use them for free writing in your classroom, or just copy them and keep them for yourself! If you have any I might enjoy, please email them to me! They may get posted on this page sometime soon!
"Life is difficult." - M. Scott Peck
"There's no such place as away, there's just somewhere else." -Glenn Jacobus
"When looking through the window of life, make sure you open the blinds." -Anonymous
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." -James B. Conant
"Where you tend a rose, my friend, a thistle cannot grow." -Frances Hodgsen Burnett's The Secret Garden
"What is REAL? asked the Rabbit..."Does it hurt?" "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful "When you are real you don't mide being hurt." -Margery Williams' The Velveteen Rabbit
"I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining." --B.J. Thomas, "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head"
"Storms make trees take deeper roots." -Claude McDonald
"Don't be in such a hurry to split the childhood scene and become an adult. It can really be a bum trip." -Greg Brady
Be not like the rooster who thought the sun rose to hear him crow." -Anonymous
"It is easier to stay out than get out." -Mark Twain
"This above all: To thine own self be true." -Shakespeare's Hamlet
"Knowledge is the fronteir of tomorrow." -Richard Corliss
"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves." -John Macain
"Procrastinatin is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill." -Chris Parker
"Life is not a laughing matter--but can you imagine having to live without laughing?" -Unknown
"It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story." -Native American Saying
"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you get yourself back." -Mick Jagger
"Don't spit into the wind." -Unknown
"Don't eat yellow snow." -Unknown
"The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory." -Chines proverb
"You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talking'." -Lyndon Baines Johnson
Thanks to all my students who have been giving me quotes!
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