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LETTERS YOU WROTE TO YOURSELVES
in the late 1990sIn 2008, nearly two years after I retired from teaching
and began a new career as a photographer
and became the volunteer publicist
for the Merrick-Bellmore Community Concert Association,
and volunteer photographer
for MS NYC fund raising events,I mailed the letters my 8th grade students wrote to THEMSELVES at the end of our Writing classes in 1998 and 1999.Thank you so much to each student and parent who emailed me to tell me you received the letterand to tell me a bit about your journeyover the past 10 or so years. It was with great JOY that I read your good news, with profound SORROW that I read your sad news, and with a big SMILE that I read about how hilarious
many of you found it to hear from your middle school selves.
And, remember,
all students are always welcome to contact me
by using the email feature at top of this page,
or the Contact Me page Ann Parry Photography
warm hugs - Ms. Parry
* * * QUOTES OF THE DAY * * *
From our 44th President:
A. If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." -- Barack Obama, 2005
B. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." -- Barack Obama, 2008 Election Night speech
C. Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." Barack Obama, 2006
1. "Life is too short to be small." -- Benjamin Disraeli
2. "He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else." -- Benjamin Franklin3. "I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." -- Martha Washington4. "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -- Joseph Addison5. "Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- John Watson6. "Hard writing makes easy reading." -- Wallace Stegner7. "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin8. "Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes9. "Don't worry about knowing people; just make yourself worth knowing." -- Unknown10. "What goes around comes around." -- African American saying11. "People will forget what you said. . . . People will forget what you did. . . . But people will never forget how you made them feel." -- Unknown12. "Like a ten-speed bike, most of us have gears we do not use." -- Charles Schulz
13. "When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." --Ethiopian proverb14. "Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing." -- Aesop15. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau16. "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." -- Edward Phelps17. "If you were another person, would you like to be a friend of yours?" -- Unknown18. "You can't unscramble eggs." -- John Pierpont Morgan19. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke20. "Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt21. "Don't judge a book by its cover." -- English proverb22. "To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." -- Proverb23."You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." -- Unknown24. "You can encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou25. "Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -- Eleanor Roosevelt26. "We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will." -- Thomas Edison27. "We must be authors of the history of our age." -- Madeleine Albright28. "The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue." -- Unknown29. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead30. "No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it." -- George Washington Carver31. "We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." -- Martin Luther King Jr.32. "Choose your socks by their color and your friends by their character. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense. Choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."-- Unknown33. "Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration." -- Thomas Edison
34. "There is a great distance between said and done." -- Puerto Rican proverb35. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Chinese proverb36. "A friend who lies for you may also lie against you." -- Unknown37. "The price of your hat isn't the measure of your brain." -- African American Saying38. "The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer39. "Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise." -- William Penn
40. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." -- Unknown41. "People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.42. "You have brains in your head./ You have feet in your shoes./ You can steer yourself any direction you choose. / You're on your own./ And you know what you know. / And you are the guy / Who'll decide where you go." -- Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!43. "Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright." -- Benjamin Franklin44. "He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most." -- Thomas Fuller45. "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech that you will ever regret." -- Ambrose Bierce46. "The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer; it's that there are so many answers." -- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist47. "The sleeping fox catches no poultry." -- Benjamin Franklin48. "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. When I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain49. "One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard50. "Statistically 100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." -- Wayne Gretsky51. "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin52. "Everyone must row with the oars he has." -- English proverb53. "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." -- Henry Ford54. "This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down but the staying down." -- Mary Pickford55. "If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you." -- Andre Previn56. "We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg." -- Emily Dickinson57. "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." --Vernon Saunders Law58. "For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily & inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going." -- Martin Luther King Jr.59. "Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it." -- W.C. Handy60. "To err is human, to forgive is divine." -- Alexander Pope61. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -- Bernard Meltzer62. "Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken. It always gets above falsehood as oil does above water." -- Miguel de Cervantes63. "Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope &, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy & daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression & resistance."-- Robert F. Kennedy64. "My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it." -- Chuang-tzu65. "Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold." -- Anonymous66. "Not failure, but low aim, is crime." -- James Russell Lowell67. "Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world." -- William James68. "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -- William James69. "The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing." -- Billie Jean King70. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson71. "You can't win unless you know how to lose." -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar72. "One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning." -- James Russell Lowell73. "An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." -- Cato the Elder74. "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." -- William Blake75. "[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling -- and indeed healthy -- to ask why you have been given so much." -- Condoleezza Rice76. "You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people." -- Stephen Gaskin77. "Your children need your presence more than your presents." -- Jesse Jackson78. "Even monkeys fall out of trees." -- Japanese proverb79. "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." -- A. A. Milne80. "Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." -- John Wooden81. "Children act in the village as they have learned at home." -- Swedish proverb82. "The more he cast away, the more he had." -- John Bunyan83. "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." -- Robert Benchley84. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -- Martin Luther King Jr.85. "If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear." -- Mark Twain86. "Make friends before you need them." -- Unknown87. "The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like hard work." -- Thomas Edison88. "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them." -- Confucius
89. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -- Lao-Tse
90. "We see the world not as it is, but as we are." The Talmud91. " What is past, is prologue." William Shakespeare, The Tempest92. "If not now, when? If not us, who?" (rephrasing used widely, including by President Ronald Reagan, of Hilel's question: "If not now, when? If not you, who?")Many of the above quotes came from "A Quotation-A-Day" from Education World, and from "Quotations Weblog."
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