Calpurnia is the Finch family’s cook and housekeeper, and she is also the person who does most of the day-to-day raising of Scout and Jem. Her most quoted lines come in Chapter 3, when she scolds Scout over Walter Cunningham, and Chapter 12, when she takes the children to her church. The Calpurnia quotes below…
“Love is all you need” comes from the Beatles song “All You Need Is Love,” written by John Lennon and first performed on June 25, 1967, on Our World, the first live global satellite broadcast. The quotes below say the same thing in other words, from Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, each with a checked source….
Clover is the cart-horse who notices that something has gone wrong on Animal Farm but can’t put it into words. Her most important quote is in Chapter 10, when she asks Benjamin, “Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?” The Clover quotes below run in chapter order, with context, so…
The line that sums up corruption in Animal Farm comes in Chapter 10, when the Seven Commandments have been reduced to one: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” Orwell builds to that sentence one small betrayal at a time, and the quotes below follow that path in order, from…
50s quotes fall into two groups: lines people actually said in the 1950s, in speeches, courtrooms and films, and the slang the decade is remembered for, like “daddy-o” and “see you later, alligator.” Both are here, with the date and source for every quote so you can use them in a history project, a themed…
If you’re like me, some of your best work has happened in a mild panic the night before it was due. I can spend whole calm weeks barely touching a thing, then do the entire project between 9pm and 2am the night before. For years I felt a bit ashamed of that, like it meant…
Almost every Rita Pierson quote in circulation comes from one place: her 2013 TED Talks Education appearance, “Every Kid Needs a Champion,” recorded a few weeks before she died. That talk runs under eight minutes and it is the source for the lines below. She was a teacher and administrator for forty years, in a…
Nearly every Reggio Emilia quote in circulation comes from Loris Malaguzzi, the teacher who founded the approach in the villages around Reggio Emilia in northern Italy after the Second World War. Most of what English-speaking educators quote is translated, which matters: the same passage appears in several different English wordings depending on the translator, and…
“Discipline” means two different things in a school, and quotes for one do not work for the other. Self-discipline is the student’s own habit of doing the work when they do not want to. Classroom discipline is the teacher’s management of behavior. Below are quotes sorted into both categories, with sources where a source exists,…
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), First Things First (1994), Principle-Centered Leadership (1991), and The 8th Habit (2004). Most quotes circulating under his name come from the first of these, and the seven habit titles themselves are the most quoted lines he wrote. Below are the quotes sorted…