“By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.” ShowsKidsNovelOrdinaryOvercomingOddsConfronting Author:Lurlene McDaniel
“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.” PeopleBelieveLittlesMadeStillsHappensKidsSongI BelieveFrontsSingingOrdinaryThings HappenGradesAll AloneBurstingOrdinary Things Author:Lynda Barry
“Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.” ShouldStatesHandsKidsYoungDiesIndividualClearTeacherDutyExerciseProtectOrdinaryGunShould HavePerformancesDiedSacredAgentsSolemnSuggestingBulbsColumbineYoung Life Author:L. Neil Smith
“I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.” KnowsWantKidsWorstKingsOrdinaryDrsLutherAbrahamWorst FearDr Martin Luther King Author:Rafe Esquith
“As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and I always hung around down there, and I was a massive fan of everything I'm kind of involved in now. But fairly ordinary and cheeky.” KindKidsCommunityActingFansHugeMomInvolvedOrdinaryTheaterMy MomMassiveHungCheeky Author:Simon Pegg
“You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.” WayGivingShowsKidsOrdinaryLadders Author:Tony Parsons
“It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.” PeopleKnowsPersonsSometimesWholeWould BeKidsImagineOrdinarySingle PersonWheelchairsAuditoriums Author:R. J. Palacio
“The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.” KidsNaturalUniqueOrdinaryExtraordinaryEverydayGood LifeMiraculousOrdinary Extraordinary Author:Shmuley Boteach
“When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, "She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too," then I feel like my time has been well spent.” IfsThinkingWorldWantFeelsWritingWellsPersonsHas BeensKidsWalksStudentsOrdinaryMy TimeImaginaryOrdinary PersonImaginary World Author:Kate DiCamillo
“People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.” PeopleThinkingNeedsChildrenRunningKidsJobsSpeakHurtPayStudentsOrdinaryPercentRootsPreparedDemocratWorkersDebtCampaignsHungryWorriedGrassDecentAgendas Author:Bernie Sanders
“The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all. Katarina Bishop followed no one.” KidsMovingWalkingOrdinaryOppositesHallsTidesBishopsKatarina Bishop Book:Heist Society Source: Heist Society
“My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.” MomentsBigsKidsJoyMotherVoiceCarFindingsOrdinaryResponsibleSmileBelieverSunsetBeing ResponsibleSmall MomentsOrdinary Days Author:Jennifer Garner