October
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M. Montgomery
“My favorite color is October.” – Unknown
“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” – John Sinor
World Teacher Day
October 5
“A teacher is one who makes him/herself progressively unnecessary.”
– Thomas Carruthers
“Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them and believe each one has something special that can be built upon.”
– Ann Liberman
“Sometimes the greatest PD (professional development) is the teacher down the hall.” – Brian Aspenall
National Poetry Day
October 8
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” – T.S. Eliot
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
– June Jordan
Farmers’ Day – October 12
“My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.”
– Brenda Schoepp
“We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.”
– Wendall Berry
Eleanor Roosevelt Born October 11, 1884
“A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
National Grouch Day
October 15
Sign in a restaurant: “If you are grouchy, irritable or just plain mean, there will be a $10 charge for putting up with you.”
Dictionary Day
October 16
“Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.”
– Ambrose Bierce
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Black Poetry Day
October 17
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dream die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
– Maya Angelou
“The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.”
– Amiri Baraka
Mothers-in-Law Day
October 25
“Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“A mother-in-law’s praise says more in a woman’s favor than anything else in the world. “
– Caroline Pafford Miller
“I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the heck off my property.’” – Joan Rivers
Halloween – October 31
“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”– Lucy Van Pelt
“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus Van Pelt
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly lit porch.”
– Robert Brault
“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.” – Ray Bradbury