World Teacher Day – October 5
“Nine-tenths of teaching is encouragement.”
– Anatole France
“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.”
– Scott Hayden
“Good teachers are the ones who can challenge young minds without losing their own.”
– Unknown
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.”
– Lady Bird Johnson
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
– Aristotle
American Library Association Founded – October 6, 1876
“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve and contribute to improving our quality of life.”
– Sidney Sheldon
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
– Albert Einstein
“Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.”
– R. David Lankes
“To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.”
– Jon Bing
American Bandstand premiered – October 7, 1957
“Dick Clark’s ‘American Bandstand’ spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.”
– John Oates
“Being on ‘Bandstand’ was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o’clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street. They were watching “Bandstand.”
– Chubby Checker“
We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.”
– Paul Simon
Farmers Day – October 12
“If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.”
– Walter Scott
“We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.“
– Wendall Berry
“Farming is a profession of hope.”
– Brett Brian
Indigenous Peoples Day October 14
“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”
– N. Scott Momaday
“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.”
– Native American
Proverb Dictionary Day – October 16
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as 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
“The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.”
– Will Cuppy
Red Ribbon Week – October 23-31
“Its mission is to lead our nation’s families and communities in nurturing the full potential of healthy, drug-free youth. Red Ribbon Week is the nation’s largest and oldest drug prevention campaign. NFP created the campaign in response to the 1985 abduction and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.”
– www.redribbon.org
Mothers-in-law Day -October 27
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
– H.L. Mencken
“Once blessed with a wonderful mother; twice blessed with my mother-in-law.”
– Unknown
“What can you say about a man, who on Mother’s Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?”
– Nancy Reagan
Halloween – October 31
“The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.”
– Ray Bradbury
“My Halloween costume was so bad that people opened their doors and took candy from me.”
– Glen Nesbitt
“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus Van Pelt
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
National Dessert Month
“My brain said crunches but my stomach autocorrected it to cupcakes.”
– Unknown
“Pro tip: Keep cake moist by eating it all in one sitting.”
– Anonymous
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Cakes are like books: there are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.”
– Ellen Rose
Adopt a Shelter Animal Month
“You can’t buy love, but you can rescue it.”
– dogizms.com
“A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, smart or dumb. Give him your heart…and he’ll give you his.”
– Milo Gathema
“Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny, and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.”
– Michael Morpurgo