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Off to college quotes are the short lines people use in cards, captions, and going-away messages when someone leaves for college. The good ones fit in a card or under a photo and say something real without straining. This collection sorts them by use, encouraging, bittersweet, and funny, and attributes each to its real source,…

A masters degree Instagram caption should be short, name the achievement, and match the tone of your photo. The most-used formats are a straight statement (“Master’s degree: done”), a play on the title (“Officially a master of my field”), or a line about what comes next. Below are captions sorted by tone, so you can…

The famous Malcolm X education quote is “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” He said it during his time with the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which he founded in 1964. The line is often reproduced as “Education is our passport to the future, for…

Malala Yousafzai’s best-known line on education is “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world,” from her 2013 speech at the United Nations. She has spoken and written about education more than any other subject, first as a schoolgirl in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and later as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize…

An APA in-text citation for a direct quote needs three things: the author’s last name, the year, and the page number. A short quote goes inside quotation marks with the citation right after: “students often struggled with the format” (Jones, 1998, p. 199). The page number is preceded by “p.” for one page or “pp.”…

To write a quote in an essay, introduce it with a signal phrase, put the exact words in quotation marks, and add a citation. A quote should never stand alone as its own sentence. The pattern is: your lead-in, the quoted words, the citation, and then a sentence of your own explaining why the quote…

To quote a source with more than one author, name the authors in your in-text citation the same way you would a single author, but follow each style’s rule for how many names to list. For two authors, both styles name both every time: MLA writes (Smith and Jones 14), APA writes (Smith & Jones,…

To quote a website in an essay, put the borrowed words in quotation marks and add an in-text citation right after them, then list the full source in your Works Cited or References page. The in-text citation uses the author’s last name (or the article title if there is no author); websites usually have no…

These heart touching quotes for teachers are sorted by use: lines about a teacher’s lasting impact, lines of gratitude from students, and lines about teaching from the heart. Each is credited, and where a widely shared quote is misattributed, that is flagged, because the most-forwarded teacher quotes are often the ones pinned to the wrong…

These elementary school graduation quotes are sorted by use: short lines for cards and caps, encouraging quotes for a speech, and a few attributed classics that suit a fifth-grade audience. Most are kept short on purpose, since elementary graduates and the cards they get do not need long passages. Where a quote is popular but…