Quotes Conversation Questions
Warm-up Question:
Are you good at remembering famous quotes, song lyrics, or lines from movies? Give an example if you can.
Discussion Questions:
React to each quote and discuss by considering the following questions: Is this quote familiar to you? What do you think it means? Do you agree with or like the message?- Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. - JFK
- What does not kill me makes me stronger. - translated from the writing of Friedrich Nietzsche
- What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare
- Not all those who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Knowledge is power. - attributed to Sir Francis Bacon
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao Tzu
- There's no place like home. - Dorothy (character) in The Wizard of Oz
- Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. - popularized by John Lennon
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. - Vito Corleone (character) in The Godfather
- May the Force be with you. - Various characters in the Star Wars universe
- Greed is good. - paraphrased from Gordon Gecko (character) in Wall Street
- Carpe diem, seize the day, boys. - John Keating (character) in Dead Poets Society
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King Jr.
- Hell is other people. - translated from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre
- That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong
- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - attributed to Thomas Edison
- To be, or not to be: that is the question… - William Shakespeare