Peanut Butter Lovers Day
March 1
“Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.”
– James A. Garfield
“People say to me all the time, ‘When did you know that you had fully become an American?’ And I say, ‘The day I realized I loved peanut butter.’”
– Ana Navarro
“You can’t make everyone happy. You’re not peanut butter.”
– Jen Chooses Joy
Read Across America Day
March 2
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.”
– Ben Okri
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
– Mary Schmich
“Books are uniquely portable magic.”
– Stephen King
Telephone Patent Granted
March 7, 1876
“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”
– Ambrose Bierce
‘Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings, and you hope it isn’t for you.”
– Ogden Nash
“The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.”
– Robert Staughton Lynd
“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.”
– Alexander Graham Bell
International Women’s Day
March 8
“I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it’s really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don’t see.”
– Chelsea Clinton
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
– Gloria Steinem
“For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.”
– Sally Ride
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
– Mary Tyler Moore
“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”
– Sandra Day O’Connor
Girl Scout Day
March 12
“The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.”
– Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
“Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.”
– Juliette Gordon Low
“We all have a place at the campfire. It was the Girl Scouts who taught me that first.”
– Gloria Steinem
“I am happy for Girl Scout season, as I have taken to eating Thin Mints in place of using toothpaste.”
– some cards
“’No thank you. One Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie is enough for now,’ said no one ever.”
“Every box of Girl Scout cookies should come with a coupon for stretchy pants.”
– laughtard.com
Pi Day
March 14
“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.”
– Lisa Hoffman
“Too much π gives you a large circumference.”
–teacherspayteachers.com
Spring Begins
March 20
“Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
– Charles Dickens
“Science has never drummed up quite as an effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.”
– W. Earl Hall
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
– Doug Larson
Children’s Poetry Day March 21
“Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”
– Walter Scott
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
– T. S. Eliot
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
– Robert Frost
Coca Cola Invented
March 29, 1886
“I ordered a soda caffeine-free, low sodium, no artificial flavors. They brought me a glass of water.”
– Robert E. Murray