Apple Seeds

Barb Stutesman

Apple Seeds for June, 2008

By Barb Stutesman
Regular Feature in the Gazette
June 1, 2008
Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspiring or thought-provoking quotation we refer to as an "Apple Seed" on the main chatboard http://teachers.net/chatboard. The "Apple Seeds" she posted during the month of May are compiled here...

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The world's favorite season is spring. All things seem possible in May
~ Edwin Way Teale

If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate a person.
~ Chinese proverb

The real object of education is to leave a person in the condition of continually asking questions.
~ Mandell Creighton

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.
~ C. S. Lewis

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
~ Plato

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great big deal out of the little ones.
~ Jean Webster

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
~ St. Anthony of Padua

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. This is my day of opportunity.
~ Dan Custer

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
~ Robert Frost

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~ Sophia Loren

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
~ Phillips Brooks

Every day is a little life. Live it to its fullest.
~ Unknown

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
~ Goethe

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience, because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
~ Dr. Thomas Dooley

Let us not hurry so in our pace of living that we lose sight of the art of living.
~ Unknown

How important it is to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~ Maya Angelou

Create tomorrow's memories today.
~ Unknown

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain

Life is a school. There is something to learn wherever we may be, wherever we go, wherever we turn.
~ Walter A. Witt

A child has two jobs. One is just being a child. The other is growing up to be an adult.
~ Unknown

The toe of the stargazer is often stubbed.
~ Russian proverb

No one can make a real masterpiece of life until s/he sees something infinitely greater in her/his vocation than bread and butter and shelter.
~ O. S. Marden

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no wrong time for learning.
~ Betty B. Anderson

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.
~ Francis A. Walker

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
~ Gloria Steinem

Learning is suddenly understanding something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
~ Doris Lessing

The main part of education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
~ Francis Marion Crawford

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
~ Seneca


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