Rocking Back and Forth

For the past few weeks I have been a little obsessed with quotations.  First, I started noticing what people put in their signature lines in their emails.  Then Della showed me some of the door posters that people are putting together, and I started reading quotations you have chosen to include.  Finally, this past week, somebody quoted a line from Jack Handy’s “Deep Thoughts,” which aired on the old Saturday Night Live episodes.

The long and short is that below is compilation of some of my favorite thoughts, quotes, and truisms that I have collected recently.  They may inspire you.  They may make you laugh. My hope is you find all of them enjoyable in some way.

• “When you’re riding in a time machine way far into the future, don’t stick your elbow out the window, or it’ll turn into a fossil.”  --Jack Handy

• “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”  --Thomas Alva Edison 

• “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”  --Steve Martin 

• “If a student can Google the answers to the questions we ask, we are asking the wrong questions.”  --Anonymous

• “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.  Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.”  --Martin Luther King, Jr.

•  “I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time.  So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”  --Steven Wright

•  “A child is so much more than a test score.”  --Bumper Sticker

• “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”  --Norman Vincent Peale

• “Be kind whenever possible.  It is always possible.”  --Dalai Lama

• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”  --C. S. Lewis

•  “Always forgive your enemies—nothing annoys them so much.”  --Oscar Wilde

•  “It’s easy to sit there and say you’d like to have more money.  And I guess that’s what I like about it.  It’s easy.  Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.”  --Jack Handy

I hope you enjoyed the long weekend, and I hope that whether you are in the need of motivation, consolation, or humor one of the quotes touched you in some way. 

Have a great week, HSE.  Pay attention to the words by which we are surrounded.  Perhaps you can add to this list or make up new words of wisdom to pass down to future lovers of words.  And perhaps one day, someone will just sit there, rocking back and forth, being touched by your wisdom….

Phil

Kudos this week to our department chairs.  Theirs is no easy task.  They teach, they push, they support, and they keep us moving forward.  We are lucky to have this gifted group providing leadership to our school.