Wiredshire - The Wiredshire is Aberdeenshire Council Education and Recreation's site for curricular and educational use. Lots of curricular resources can be found on this site.
Drumoak and Durris Playgroup - Accredited pre-school group with playgroup, toddler groups and baby group at the Crossroads Nursery in Durris, covering Crathes, Durris and Drumoak.
Grampian Local Learning Partnership - Promote lifelong learning in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire by acting as a focus for learning issues and as a catalyst to jointly drive the issues forward.
Portlethen Academy - Six-year secondary school. Contains news, events and examples of pupils' work.
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Education The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Education
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Education Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Education
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Education Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Education
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Education In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Education
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Education The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Education
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Education Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Education
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Education The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Education This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Education
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Education If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Education
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Education However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Education
