Quotes (some from students, some from books)

When I read something that applies to me or I think will apply later on I write it down.  Also when my students say something I want to remember I write it down.  (old age is creeping up on me.  I can't remember anything)  Here are a few of my favorites.

“If you don’t turn you adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain.  But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else’s gain… Your ability to help others is limited to where you have been wounded.”

–In a Pit With a Lion On a Snowy Day

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand”

            -I can’t remember where I found this

“Society needs people who know how to be compassionate and honest… You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.”

            -I always forgot to write the author of this one down

“God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others.  When others are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.”

-2 Corinthians 1:4

“Two people are better than one for they can help each other succeed.  If one person falls, the other can each out and help.”

            -Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

            -Maya Angelou

“As much as you want to plan your life, it has a way of surprising you with unexpected things that will make you happier than you originally planned.  That’s what you call God’s Will.”

            _Pintest

“Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most.  Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning.  Just give hope a chance to float up.”

            -Hope Floats

Student: “Miss I have an animal, but it’s dead so it won’t disrupt the classroom.”

Me: “What is it?”

Student: drops/tosses a dead 8 inch centipede on my desk

Me: jump back out of my chair and scream

Whole Class: laughs

In class we are talking notes.  The whole class is finished except for two boys who had been talking the entire time.  I decide to move on with the notes since they had been talking and not working.  I move on and one of them goes “I’m not finished”  I said, “you should not have been talking.  We are moving on”  Student: “But wait, What about No Child Left Behind!”

Student (being inappropriate): “want to come to my house tonight?  I have AC.”

It took a lot of will power to say no to AC.  The heat index is over 105 and I only have a fan.

(A few of my students, Mark, Caleb, Alesana, and Ise)