Teaching Students How To Interpret Quotes & Sayings

You were the thing
worth photographing,
the stillness
that begged
for a matte finish
and far off stare. — Tyler Knott Gregson

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science. — Craig Stevens

Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works - Virginia Woolf — Tracie Podger

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create. — Mark Hoppus

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. — Rebecca Harding Davis

New York just expects so much from a girl - acts like it can't stand even the idea of a wasted talent or opportunity ... Rome says: enjoy me. London: survive me. New York: gimme all you got. What a thrilling proposition! The chance to be "all that you might be." Such a thrill - until it becomes a burden. — Zadie Smith

The Republican abuse of the term feminism in the past decade or so is an astonishing lesson in the politically opportunistic use of language. — Nina Power

Our subconscious mind stores all our negative beliefs, complexes and behavioral patterns — Sunday Adelaja

I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it. — Maeve Binchy

I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers ... creativity above fact regurgitation ... individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance ... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy. — Tom Peters

I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical. — Dean Spade

The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life. — Neil Gaiman

Treat life as if it is the best gift from the universe. — Debasish Mridha

Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow, to achieve, and to fulfill by immersing your awareness in life's ever-present goodness. — Ralph Marston