Quotes About Mentor Texts

#1. Expect writers to do more than sit and study the works of those they hope to emulate. Encourage them to cut mentor texts open - physically.

Angela Stockman

#2. Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.

Kelly Gallagher

#3. Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Dennis Gabor

#4. We have things of value, but you could never find them because you don't even know how to look.

Ally Condie

#5. Shaw took my hand, his fingers lacing with mine. "Happy?" he asked.
I smiled, my chest swelling with emotion. "More than I ever thought possible."
He kissed me, murmuring against my lips, "Get used to it. This is only the beginning.

Sophie Jordan

#6. A small percentage of medieval bodies were buried such; historians thought they were the graves of suicides or witches, though really, historians were such Guesser McGuessers, him the biggest of them all.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Albert Einstein had Max Talmud, his first mentor. It was Max who introduced a ten-year-old Einstein to key texts in math, science, and philosophy. Max took one meal a week with the Einstein family for six years while guiding young Albert. No one is self-made.

Gary Keller

#8. Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

Anthony Quinn

#9. Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.

Taylor Swift

#10. Your flour is your dream and your bread is your fulfillment. The environment in which your flour is baked can influence the shape of your bread ... Just take it as simple as that!

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woodrow Wilson

#12. You are my sticky little leaf. My beautiful, sad, sticky little leaf, and I want to see you happy and whole.

Sylvain Reynard

#13. Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.

Walter Schloss

#14. I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Dolly Parton