Teaching Tip: Quotes From the Arts
Your students can have fun matching quotes from the arts with the people who issued the quotes.
Here are the people who issued the quotes:
Harriet Beecher Stowe - author of Uncle Tom`s Cabin
Stephen King - horror writer
Duke Ellington - jazz musician
Walt Disney - film producer
Bruce Springsteen - singer
Ernest Hemmingway - writer
Here are the quotes:
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." (Hemmingway)
"Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around." (Springsteen)
"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation." (Stowe)
"Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I`ve ever known." (Disney)
"Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that`s not true. I have the heart of a young boy - in a jar on my desk." (King)
"It don`t mean a thing if it ain`t got that swing." (Ellington)