D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:00am
Speaker 1
Brother
Milk
Shower
Speaker 2
Bucket
Ginger
Tunnel
Speaker 3
Jacket
Socks
Senator
Speaker 4
Monkey
Whisker
Smoke
Speaker 5
Saxophone
Swimming pool
Toes
Speaker 6
Mother
Stadium
Smile
Speaker 7
Heels
Lighter
Koala
Round 2 - 9:30am
Speaker 1
Opportunity
Dishonesty
Tolerance
Speaker 2
speculation
Horror
Clarity
Speaker 3
forgiveness
self-discipline
Delight
Speaker 4
Union
Speed
Wit
Speaker 5
Solitude
Advantage
Silliness
Speaker 6
Pride
Patience
Trust
Speaker 7
Movement
Maturity
Deceit
Round 3 - 10:45am
Speaker 1
Use it or lose it.
Earth is the queen of beds. --Namibian proverb
Don't miss opportunities: time doesn't come round again. --Chinese Proverb
Speaker 2
Look before you leap
Family shames must not be spread abroad. --Chinese Proverb
Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away. --Chinese Proverb
Speaker 3
Two wrongs don’t make a right
Good bargains empty the purse.
Like people, like priest.
Speaker 4
May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live. --Irish proverb
Timely return of a loan makes it easier to borrow a second time. --Chinese Proverb
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Speaker 5
Every dog has its day
Let sleeping dogs lie.
No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree. --African Proverb
Speaker 6
If you snooze, you lose.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Speaker 7
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was. --Irish proverb
Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?
An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend. --Senegalese proverb
Finals - 12:15pm
Speaker 1
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. --William Shakespeare
Your focus determines your reality. --Qui-Gon Jinn, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 2
It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. --Fred Rogers
"For society is nothing but collaboration." --— Ludwig von Mises
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? --Benjamin Disraeli
Speaker 3
"When a bubble's gone, you don't see it anymore with your eyes. And when an opera is over, you don't hear it anymore with your ears. But you can remember it, and you’ll always have them with you in your memory.” --— Fred Rogers
Even miracles take a little time --Pinocchio
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. --Fred Rogers
Speaker 4
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. --Alice Walker
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind s made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. --Rosa Parks
We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means. --Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaker 5
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. --Fred Rogers
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. --Anne Frank
"The audience loves a slow thinker.” --— Buster Keaton
Speaker 6
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. --Fred Rogers
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. --Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people. --Warren Buffett