“…encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness, and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.”

Titus 2:6-8



Man, there are quite a few Pop Warner coaches I would like to beat soundly over the head with this one...

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Kurt Vonnegut


Hmmm... have to think about this one -- "murderous resentment?" -- but did pick up Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 and found a whole chapter on cool Vonnegut quotes...

"If you don't respect yourself no body gonna give a hoop-de-hoop*"


Bruce Willis "Respect Yourself" (off the Return of Bruno LP?)



I know that's not what they say, but I'm supposed to be doing other things so I ain't looking it up... reminds me of my sister singing Kenny Loggins** -- "I'm all right, don't nobody butterfly me"

**yes, she is so old Kenny Loggins songs were on the radio...

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."


Carl Sagan

"When you win, nothing hurts"


Joe Namath


and when you lose every game for the 2nd straight season, it hurts only the coaches, but not for long, 'cause the players don't know or care about winning as long as there are snacks and cool trophies...

"Don't worry, Chief!"

"Agent 86"

The Get Smart TV series is out on DVD -- I forgot Maxwell had, in addition to the shoe, the tie phone, glasses phone, belt phone, and handkerchief phone!

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. "

Vladimir Nabokov

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

???

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Ernest Hemingway

“Pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. All other tangible rewards will come as a result.”


Maya Angelou

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

Malcolm X



“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

James Baldwin

"Leave me out of your life's plans, you little weirdo."


Susie to Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes


oh man, if I heard that once, I heard it a thousand times...

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."


~Erasmus



cribbed from http://tickettoanywhere.blogspot.com/ -- thanks!

"I’m a big believer in the mirror test.
All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there that you’ve done your best."


John McKay, football coach (1923-2001)

"It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say 'damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete..' you gonna be like 'DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE'"

Tupac Shakur
(we kick it over on LT)

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not
some strangeness in the proportion"

Francis Bacon


thanks to "TheBookImp" at LT!

“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”


-Oscar Wilde


In an effort to be thorough with Wilde’s quote, I used my well-thumbed (well-clicked?) Thesaurus:

wicked – bad, wrong, evil; sinful, depraved, fiendish;atrocious
fascination – attraction, appeal, allure, enticement, magnetism
vulgar – crude, rough, tasteless; common, improper,unfortunate
popular – accepted, admired, traditional, expected; prevalent, widespread

"But Tonto he was smarter
And one day said kemo sabe
Kiss my ass I bought a boat
I'm going out to sea"

"If I Had A Boat"

"And I said ooh give back my heart
chip-kicker redneck woman
Take your boots and walk out of my life"

"Give Back My Heart"

Pontiac
Lyle Lovett

"Hey bus driver, keep the change
Bless your children and give them names..."


"Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?"
Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Bruce Springsteen

"...Then they came for the Socialists, but I was not a Socialist, so I didn't respond. Then they came for the Jews and since I was not a Jew, I didn't respond. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me."


quoted in The Freedom Writers Diary

"If you love someone put their name in a circle, not a heart, because hearts can be broken but circles go on forever!"

- Unknown

"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control."

- Unknown



borrowed from "Priya"

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."


Henry David Thoreau

found on "Bookish Kitty"

"If you tell the truth, does the fact that nobody's listening make it a lie?"

K.J. Parker, The Escapement


"If a tree fell in the forest, She didn't hear it, would I still be wrong?"

The Notorious Cherry Bombs
"It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long"

"Students are mysterious creatures with amazing powers"


Rookie Teaching for Dummies

(I wish I'd bought stock in the Dummies series... but if I was smart enough to do that, I wouldn't need the books...)

"For one swallow does not make a summer,
nor does one day;
and so too one day, or a short time,
does not make a man blessed or happy."

Aristotle

"Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals."

Ammon Hennacy
pacifist, anarcist, never paid taxes


"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy


"There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence."

Jaques Ellul
philosopher

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."


Christopher Morley
American author & journalist (1890 - 1957)

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist."
"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."


Stephen Crane, War is Kind and Other Lines

"Intellect, emotion, and spirit depend on one another for wholeness."

"I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy."


Parker J. Palmer The Courage to Teach




One of my goals in life is to one day be able to say that, and know exactly what it feels like...

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy..."

St. Francis, as told to Dear Abby (?)


didn't realize they knew each other...