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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may
not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~Albert Camus
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~Mae West
"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to
greater things." ~Bobby Knight
"The waste basket is the writer's best friend." ~Isaac Singer
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the
music the words make." ~Truman Capote
"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am a
grownup, they call me a writer." ~Isaac Singer
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until
drops of blood form on your forehead." ~Gene Fowler
"A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they
can change their meaning right in front of you. They pick up flavors and
odors like butter in a refrigerator." ~Anonymous
"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are
unable to say." ~Anais Nin
"Poetry ... is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look
through to guess about what was seen during a moment." ~Carl Sandburg
"Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts
forever." ~Philip Pullman
there have been no societies that did not tell stories." ~Ursula K.
LeGuin
"The tale is often wiser than the teller." ~Susan Fletcher
"If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other
hearts." ~Thomas Carlyle
"Of course it's true, but it may not have happened." ~Patricia Polacco's
grandmother
"As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons
who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to
say." ~Katherine Paterson
"It's a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just
to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting
someplace." ~Ruth Stout
"You see, I was one of those people who do not believe in enchantments.
And because of that, I must suffer to be enchanted myself, and to be
chained and push this millstone around." ~Richard Kennedy
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when
you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to
talk about something really infinite." ~C.S. Lewis
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." ~Carol Burnett
"Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's
so hurtful to think about writing." ~Heather Armstrong
"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block." ~Inigo DeLeon
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do
nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again
and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you
will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." ~Isaac
Isimov
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if
you earn no money." ~Jules Renard
"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help
it." ~Leo Rosten
"First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to
obscurity." ~Martin Myers
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." ~Peter
De Vries
"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
~Charles DeSecondat
"Writing is hard work ... and bad for the health. ~E.B. White
"Write to be understood; speak to be heard; read to grow." ~Lawrence
Clark Powell
"Writing came easy -- it would only get hard when I got better at it."
~Garry Willis
"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of
'double' living. The writer experiences everything twice; once in
reality, and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind."
~Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the
natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and
slightly savage, if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
~Jessamyn West
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons
exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." ~G.K.
Chesterton
"The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are
lost and won, than by the stories it loves and believes in."
~Harold Goddard
"I began to realize how simple life could be, if one had a regular routine
to follow with fixed hours and a fixed salary and very little original
thinking to do. The life of a writer is absolute hell, compared with the
life of a businessman. A person is a fool to become a writer." ~Roald
Dahl
"In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good
books for children are the only hope, the only refuge." ~Isaac Bashevis
Singer
"Words should be weighed, not counted." ~Jewish folk saying
" If stories come to you, care for them. Learn to give them away where
they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to
stay alive." ~Barry Lopez
"Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that
often defies logic." ~Jim Trelease
"People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts." ~Rafe Martin
"To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal." ~W.H. Auden
"In every generation, children's books mirror the society from which
they arise; children always get the books their parents deserve."
~Leonard S. Marcus
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." ~Linus
Pauling
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
research." ~Oscar Wilde
"God made man because he loves stories." ~Rabbi Nachman
"Australian Aborigines say that the big stories, the stories worth
telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your
life, are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like
predators hunting their prey in the bush." ~Robert Moss
"I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never
met any." ~Arthur Miller
"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things
familiar and familiar things new." ~Samuel Johnson
"Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist
on being written, and on being such and such." ~Samuel Butler
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was
the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to
be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't
understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand
life." ~ John Lennon
"To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the
world." ~Anonymous
"Adults are only obsolete children." ~Dr. Seuss
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If you ideas are any
good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." ~Howard Aiken
"People may forget what you do, and forget what you say, but people will
never forget how you make them feel." ~Anonymous
"Life is good. Keep it simple." ~Anonymous
My Favorite Quotations on Writing, Childhood, and Teaching |
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's
too dark to read.” ~Groucho Marx
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong either is, until
it's in hot water.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” !Martin Luther King Jr.
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” ~Dr. Seuss
"Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings;
their every thought is a garden full of wonder." ~CJ heck
"Tears on the outside fall on the ground and are slowly swept away.
Tears on the inside fall on the soul and stay and stay and stay."
~Anonymous
"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
~Anonymous
"Say what you mean; mean what you say, but don't say it mean."
~Anonymous
"Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it's
tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to
them." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"May you always see the world through the eyes of a child." ~CJ Heck
"Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the
rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry."
~Alvin Price
"We cough to clear our throats. We sign to clear our hearts." ~T.S.
Matthews
"The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart." ~Mencius
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~Albert Einstein
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength
from distress, and grow brave by reflection."
~Thomas Paine
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." ~Frank Lloyd
Wright
"All our guests bring happiness, some by coming, others by going."
~Anonymous
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to
the rest of the world." ~John Muir
"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker
than a child." ~Mary MacCracken
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will
not depart from it." ~Proverbs 22:6
"You know that children are growing up when they start asking
questions that have answers." ~John J. Plomp
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be
enthusiasm." ~Bruce Barton
"Truth is such a delightful thing that it is delightful to tell it."
~Emily Dickenson
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small
package." ~John Ruskin
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor
Roosevelt
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm
frightened of the old ones." ~John Cage
"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does,
except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age, but only if
the grapes were good in the first place."
~Abigail Van Buren
"I expect to pass through this world but once: any good thing
therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any
fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for
I shall not pass this way again." ~Ettiene DeGrellet
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
~Abraham Lincoln
"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
~Hazrat Inayat Khan
"Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care
about." ~Trey Parker and Matt Stone
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Ghandhi
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking." ~Henry Lous Menchken
"There are no grades of vanity, only grades of ability in concealing
it." ~Mark Twain
"It's is often easier to fight for one's principles, than to live up to
them." ~Adlai Stevenson
"the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors
are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever
again.” ~Elizabeth Lawrence
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors
are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever
again.” ~Elizabeth Lawrence
“Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.” ~Benjamin
Franklin
A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little
more securely into an unfamiliar world. ~Charles and Ann Morse
"A good teacher is like a candle. It, too, consumes itself to light the
way for others." ~Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and
pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a
sharp stick called 'truth'." ~Dan Rather
"In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It's invisible
and remains so, maybe for twenty years." ~Jacques Barzun
"Teaching creates all other professions." ~Anonymous
"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one
time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want
to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or
dentist -- without assistance -- had to treat them all with
professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some
conception of the classroom teacher's job." ~Donald D. Quinn
"Modern cynics and skeptics see no harm in paying those they entrust
with the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those
they entrust with the care of their plumbing." ~John F. Kennedy
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
~Thomas Carruthers
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
~Gail Godwin
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil
with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron." ~Horace Mann
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops." ~Henry Brooks Adams
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it."
~Margaret Fuller
"Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more." ~Bob Talbert
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." ~William
Arthur Ward
"Teaching should be full of ideas, instead of stuffed with mere
facts." ~Anonymous
"What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be
erased." ~Anonymous
"A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ..." ~Unknown
"Adults are only children, with a few more years on top." ~CJ Heck
"A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
