National Women’s History Month
“I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide for myself.”
– Emma Watson
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“A woman is like a teabag – only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am an example of what is possible when girls, from the very beginning of their lives, are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.”
– Michelle Obama
“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.” – Tina Fey
“Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Read Across America Day – March 2
“A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“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 to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
– Joseph Addison
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
– Mary Schmich
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Cicero
“If you don’t like to read – you haven’t found the right book.”
– J.K. Rowling
Quotes from Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) born March 2, 1904
“Being crazy isn’t enough.”
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.”
Harriet Tubman Day – March 10
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
– Harriett Tubman
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
– Harriett Tubman
Pi Day – March 14
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” – Albert Einstein
“Pi had its driver’s license revoked because it didn’t know when to stop.”
– KickingCones.com
“Pi – irrational, but well rounded.” – Bill Nye
“Why should you never ask pi for advice? It will go on forever.” – Giphy
“3.14 percent of sailors are pi-rates.” – Unknown
St. Patrick’s Day
March 17
“May the best day of your past be the worse day of your future.”
– Irish blessing
“May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load.”
– Irish blessing
“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels.”
– Nora Roberts
Spring Arrives
March 20
“Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” – Jessica Harrelson
“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”
– Mark Twain
“Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.”
– Doug Larson
“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
– Bishop Reginald Heber
“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
– Mark Twain
Children’s Poetry Day – March 21
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
National Goof-Off Day – March 22
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell
“Doing nothing is hard. How do you know when you’re done?”
– WordPress.com
Passover begins March 27 at sundown
“The seder nights tie me with centuries before me.”
– Ludwig Frank
“Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the unalienable right of every human being.”
– Morris Joseph
Doctor’s Day – March 30
“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”
– Hippocrates
“The awe of discovering the human body. The honor of being trusted to give advice. The gratitude for helping someone through a difficult illness. These things never grow old.”
– Danielle Ofri, MD
“Observation, Reason, Human Understanding, Courage; these make the physician.”
– Martin H. Fischer
Music in our Schools Month
“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.”
– Gerald Ford
“Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.” – Plato
“Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children’s education.”
– Yo-Yo Ma