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Apple Seeds – Inspirational Quotes for Educators
By Barb Stutesman
A compilation of the Daily Apple Seeds posted during May, 2010
05-01: The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.
~ Edwin Way Teale
05-02: To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
05-03: Wait not till tomorrow; gather the roses of life today. ~ Pierre de Ronsard
05-04: People who garden learn when to dig and when to transplant, when to pinch a
sprig off to spur new growth, and when to let things well enough alone.
~ Emyl Jenkins
05-05: There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level,
institutions can and should have a heart. ~ Randy Pausch
05-06: No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings. ~ William Blake
05-07: It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to
happen. ~ Francis Hodgson Burnett
05-08: It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot
05-10: Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.
~ Madeline S. Bridges
05-11: There is nothing permanent except change. ~ Heraclitus
05-12: It’s been well documented that there is a growing sense of entitlement
among young people today. ~ Randy Pausch
05-13: Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
05-14: Love not what you are, but what you may become. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
05-15: For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know. ~ Unknown
05-16: If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves. ~ Thomas Alva Edison
05-17: The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
05-18: May you live all the days of your life. ~ Jonathan Swift
05-19: Brick walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them – even if
someone has to practically throw you over – it can be helpful to others to tell
them how you did it. ~ Randy Pausch
05-20: The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
05-21: Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it’s about
the only thing can have as much of as s/he’s willing to haul away.
~ George Lorimer
05-22: If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. ~ Tryon Edwards
05-23: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. ~ Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
05-24: The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who cannot read them. ~ Mark Twain
05-25: The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their
children. ~ William Harvard
05-26: Be a communitarian. ~ Randy Pausch
05-27: The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in
what we are free not to do. ~ Eric Hoffer
05-28: Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. ~ Kris Kristofferson
05-29: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~ Thomas Paine
05-30: Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays. . . . The
grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel
into peach blossoms. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
05-31: We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.
~ Francis A. Walker
