Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

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• I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Moment

• Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Today
  • Year
  • Back

• Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Think
  • Hunting

• We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • American
  • Everyone
  • Greatest

• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Color
  • End
  • Race

• I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Influence
  • Writer
  • Dangerous

• If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

  

  Carl Sagan

• You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Good
  • Truth

• For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Lies

• 'There is no God,' cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values - is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • God

• Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Reading
  • Road
  • Ignorance

• …British louts with guitars and emetic little songs…infantile screamers…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The pictures, with their ruddy light, Are changed to dust and ashes white, And I am left alone with night.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Night
  • Light
  • Alone

• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Education

• Christmas is always a great time because I get to be around family and spend time with my brother, nieces, and nephews, so that's what I plan to do. It's great to disconnect from everything.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.

  

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Heart
  • Cold

• Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

  

  Bradley A. Smith
  • Independent

• I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Work

• When my boys were little, I'd throw so many toys at them, but they didn't want to play with any. Then I'd give them a truck, and they would play for hours. I believe the same thing applies to a consumer - edit their choices, and they will be more intrigued.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Truck

• That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

  

  Alan King
  • Time
  • Great
  • Father

• The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Water
  • Building

• In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson