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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• 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 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

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

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Lies

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

  

  Anthony Burgess

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

  

  Ellen Key
  • Education

• 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

• 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

• The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.

  

  Marisa Coughlan
  • People

• The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Food

• I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Flower
  • Capricorn

• I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Color

• Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Home
  • Missing

• No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

  

  Charles Comiskey
  • Honesty
  • Insurance

• I don't know anybody who thinks they have it all... I count myself extremely lucky to have a fantastic family and the career I always wanted.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Family
  • Career

• There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Suffering

• I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!

  

  Janel Parrish
  • Water
  • Guilty

• Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Up
  • Home
  • Kids

• I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
  • Book
  • Poetry

• If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from our thoughts.

  

  Woodrow M. Kroll
  • World
  • Care
  • Thoughts

• We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Children
  • Teachers
  • Schools

• I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldn’t bow down.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • People
  • Up
  • Kids

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

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson