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Quotes About School

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady. Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.
~ Scott Westerfeld
So much of childhood seems to have been spent in secret, and most of its pleasures came from this. Most of the memories I have of it, too. I already considered life to be far from wonderful—something, indeed, to be avoided as much as one could, like school or games or children's parties. Life, real life, was like a picture that frightened me seriously.
~ John Bayley
in the school of Christ, men are not merely taught about justification; they are made just by what he has done for them. And
~ John Calvin
So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets — and even the gospel itself — as without value.
~ John Calvin
That there exists in the human mind and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity [sensus divinitatis], we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead…. …this is not a doctrine which is first learned at school, but one as to which every man is, from the womb, his own master; one which nature herself allows no individual to forget.
~ John Calvin
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
~ John Cameron
He had always worried about her when he was in school, because if he was away from her then he had no control over her existence.
~ John Connolly
I believe that the school must represent life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
~ John Dewey
our daily associations cannot be trusted to make clear to the young the part played in our activities by remote physical energies, and by invisible structures. Hence a special mode of social intercourse is instituted, the school, to care for such matters.
~ John Dewey
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.
~ Harry Graham
Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
~ Kristen Stewart
I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.
~ Martina McBride
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
~ Max Hastings
Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.
~ Michelle Rodriguez
My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.
~ Jessica-Jane Applegate
I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
~ Taraji P. Henson
Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.
~ Terry Pratchett
I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.
~ Harry Shum, Jr.
Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.
~ Lydia Ko
My family and school life are important to me.
~ Anna Chlumsky
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
~ Clarence Darrow
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.
~ Gillian Jacobs
I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.
~ Josh Hutcherson
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
~ Alfie Allen