Harrison Elementary School

If you are looking for perfect safety, sit on the fence and watch the birds.
  ~ Wilbur Wright in My Brother’s Flying Machine: Wilbur, Orville, and Me by Jane Yolen 

Words, Peter learned, were powerful things.
 ~ Jen Bryant, Roget and His Thesaurus 

Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you figure out the solution.
 ~Sara Pennypacker, Clementine’s Letters

Many great geniuses are thought to be crazy because they are different.  Never criticize the creations of another person’s heart and mind.”
~Rosemary Wells, Yoko’s World of Kindness: Golden Rules for a Classroom

Those who cheat, lose in the end.
~Aesop, The Vain Jackdaw (retold by Brad Sneed)

You got to go in with a winning attitude if you want to come out winners.
~Tiki and Ronde Barber (with Paul Mantell), Red Zone

 . . .  knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey.  You have to chase it through the pages of a book.”
~Patricia Polacco, Thank You Mr. Falker

There is a balance and harmony in both work and play.
~Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

I am standing by him.  This is my teammate.
 ~Peter Golenbock, Teammates

Life is full of dangers.  But you can overcome them if you keep your head.
~Jessica Gunderson, Sacagawea: Journey into the West

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.
~R. J. Palacio, Wonder

Just remember, never give up.  Never stop believing yourself.
~Geronimo Stilton, The Mouse Island Marathon

It feels so good when I do somethin’ nice for somebody, it oughta be against the law.
~Dan Gutman, Honus and Me

Today is going to be the best day of my life.
 ~Barbara Joosse, The Losers Fight Back

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. . . the responsibilities of life rest equally on man and woman.
~Connie Colwell Miller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Take care of your things and your things take care of you.
~Lenore Look, Alvin Ho

Believe in yourself and the world will believe in you.
~Patty Lovell, Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon

The secret to being a great ballplayer is to trick yourself into thinkin’ you already are one.”
~Dan Gutman, Honus and Me

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes – each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
~Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind

Hard work makes dreams come true
~DyAnne Disalvo-Ryan, A Castle on Viola Street

To get rid of your fears, face them.
~Geronimo Stilton, Four Mice Deep in a Jungle

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
~Jack Fiebig, A Student’s Dictionary

Live in your heart, not your head.
~John Stephens, The Emerald Atlas

Do not ever be afraid to start over.
~Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising

It is not often that someone comes along and is a true friend.
~ E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

One thing hasn’t changed – and that’s how I feel when I’m riding a wave.
~ Bethany Hamilton, Sharks

Take fate in your hands.
 ~ Kate DiCamillo, Leroy Ninker Saddles Up

Good friends are hard to find but impossible to forget.
~ John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

He who falls today may rise tomorrow.  The rich person is richer when he becomes poor, than the poor person when he becomes rich.
~ Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising

This time, I not only pictured the move.  I believed I could do it.
~ Mary Casanova, The Fault in Our Stars

You did your best.  And your best is good enough to present to the Emperor.
 ~ Demi, The Empty Pot

Sidelines may be safer, but life is played on the field.
~ Wendy Mass, 13 Gifts

A friend is not someone you can count on.  It’s someone who can count on you.
~ Jeff Brown, Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan

Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
~ Kevin Henkes, Bird Lake Moon

Life ends, while knowledge goes on forever.
~ Zhuang Zi, History Mysteries Revealed

We are alive, and that is all that matters.  Do not let them tear you from the pages of the world.
~ Alan Gratz, Prisoner

For nine years I had done everything I could to survive.  Now it was time to live.
~ Alan Gratz, Prisoner

You make your own luck.
~ Cynthia Lord, Touch Blue

You can’t tell something’s worth by the way it looks.
~ Julie Tozier, Building Bridges

Me and my big feet. . . making my mark on the world.
~ Debbie Allen, Dancing in the Wings

Your deeds are your monuments.
~ R. J. Palacio, Wonder

When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.
~ R. J. Palacio, Wonder (quote from Dr. Wayne W. Dyer)

Seek harmony with your surroundings.
~ Mary Pope Osborne, Dragon of the Red Dawn (Magic Tree House #37)

Without dreams, none of us would ever amount to much.
~ Derek Jeter, The Contract

Our most important friends are sometimes those we least expected.
~ Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu, Owen Mzee

Real immortality is about never dying because all the people around you, all the people who loved you, will never let you out of their hearts, and if they never let you out of their hearts then you are never gone in the first place.
~ Ridley Pearson, The Insider (Kingdom Keepers)

Don’t let anyone tell you who you are. . . especially when they don’t even know you.  Be who you want to be.
~ Jenny Lee, Elvis and the Underdogs

. . . that’s its own kind of magic – to feel that people who are gone are still here.
~ Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

A name is a powerful thing.
~ Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

When you get something right, that means you know it.  But sometimes it is better to be wrong than right so you can learn from your mistakes.
~ Connor Struncis, student

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

His size is big but his heart is even bigger.
~  Julius Lester, John Henry

Don’t let anyone discourage your efforts. You really can change the world.
~  Brenda Iasevoli, A Science Success Story

Try to please everyone and you end up pleasing no one.
~  Aesop, The Man, the Boy and the Donkey

Genius is mostly sweat.
~  Mary Pope Osborne, Magic Tree House: Night of the Magicians

Liars are not believed, even when they tell the truth.
~  Aesop, The Shepherd that Cried Wolf

The best things in life are free.
~  Judy Blume, Double Fudge

A truly courageous person is the one who must first conquer fear within himself
~  Elizabeth Winthrop, The Castle in the Attic

Enthusiasm is everything.  It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
~  Mary Pope Osborne, Magic Tree House: Soccer on Sunday (quote by Pele)

Friends come and go.  Family stays forever.
~  Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth

The world is dark, and light is precious.
~  Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

Dream big and big things can happen.
~  Dolly Parton, quoted in the book, Who Is Dolly Parton? by True Kelley

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to try to succeed.
~  Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
~  Linda Sherma, Alexander Graham Bell

To make yourself strong and healthy it is necessary to begin with your inside.
~  Juliette Low, as quoted by Shana Corey in Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing
All-True Story of Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure

If life gets challenging, eat a cupcake and you’ll be high in the sky!
~  Matthew Jojy, student

Yesterday was history.  Tomorrow’s a mystery.  Today’s a gift – that’s why we call it the present.
~  Anonymous

You never know when something begins where it is going to take you.
~  Joan W. Blos, A Gathering of Days

 . . . Sometimes the things you think you want aren’t really what you want at all.
 ~  Anna Quindlen, Happily Ever After

You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, ‘cause obviously we don’t get many of them.
 ~  James Riley, Twice Upon a Time