QUOTES – a famous line by someone famousPrepared by Miss Grace (2015)

A good quote adds something meaningful to your argument and links to the main idea of the paragraph.

When choosing a quote, make sure it: supports the main idea of the paragraph is punchy and direct, even dramatic comes from a source you trust is relatively short and straight to the point.

Follow each quote with a short description of what it means and how it relates to your topic sentence and argument.

ExampleMahatma Gandhi once said, “Health is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” This suggests the utmost importance of maintaining our health.

Note: 1. IF A QUOTE DOES NOT CONVEY EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY, THEN YOU MIGHT AS WELL DON’T USE ANY.2. CHOOSE TO USE ONE QUOTE (or two) IN YOUR ESSAY IF POSSIBLE.

ABOUT KNOWLEDGEThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance – Socrates

ABOUT LAW/ MORAL

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws – Plato

ABOUT EFFORT/ WORK

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing – Theodore Roosevelt

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

 It is not the length of life, but the depth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

ABOUT LOVE

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

ABOUT HOPE

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King

Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get. - Forrest Gump.

ABOUT VIOLENCE

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. - Mohandas GandhiErnest Hemingway once said, “All things truly wicked start from innocence.”

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.Quentin Tarantino

ABOUT POLLUTIONA nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. -Franklin Roosevelt

ABOUT HEALTH

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Health is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.Tom Harkin

It won't be long before we start seeing our children growing up losing limbs and becoming blind as they develop the serious complications of having the condition.Cathy Moulton

ABOUT INTERNET

A year in the Internet is equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. -Vinton Cerf

Internet is evolving faster and faster.

ABOUT MEDIA

TV is the most powerful thing that has ever been inventedOzzy Osbourne

Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg

ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

While human-induced global warming is not going to turn present-day Earth into present-day Mars, global warming is dire enough that our most distinguished scientists recently concluded that as many as 1 million species on the planet could be extinct by 2050 if affairs do not change. Jay Inslee

ABOUT PEER PRESSURE

Someone’s version of your reality is not the reality.― Shannon L. Alder

“Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.” ― Shannon L. Alder

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ― Bruce Lee