Quotes About Attendance

If 80 percent of life is showing up, the other 80 percent, as Yogi Berra might've said, is chance.

There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did.

You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.

Its so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

What she was retreating from was any profundity of feeling and therefore any commitment more intense than light church attendance and an interest in roses.... History is of course crammed with people like Mother, who are just sitting it out.

The Pew Research Center reports that Christianity is declining sharply in America. In 2014 about seventy percent of American adults identified as Christians.1 But this figure is misleading. According to a study by sociologists C. Kirk Hadaway and Penny Long Marler published in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, less than twenty percent of Americans regularly attend church on a weekly basis.2 This statistic gives us a better indication of actual Christian commitment.

Who does this—goes to the shows of people they're supposed to be proud of and counts the empty seats?

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

You have to be engaged, or else you're not going to want to show up and go to work.

My name is A.J. I like football and video games, and I hate school." Our teacher, Miss Daisy, was taking attendance.

After the introduction of the fine we observed a steady increase in the number of parents coming late," the economists wrote. "The rate finally settled, at a level that was higher, and almost twice as large as the initial one."19

According to George Barna, the majority of born-again Christians admit that their bi-weekly attendance at worship services is generally the only time they worship God.

People communicate through their attendance—whether they're prompt or late, cancel an hour beforehand, or don't show up at all.

At least having a winter birthday means you can blame your low party attendance on the weather.

If you don't go to people's funerals they won't come to yours.