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Quotes About School

In a free market, we reward the exceptional. In school, we tell kids that once something gets too hard, move on and focus on the next thing. The low-hanging fruit is there to be taken; no sense wasting time climbing the tree.
~ Seth Godin
He says he is starting a school here, and not just any school, but "the best of the best." He tells Signora Divino, his neighbor, "We will bring all the children from all over the world and we will live in harmony!" Is he kidding?
~ Sharon Creech
But I am glad you are my teacher again. I hope you will keep moving up a grade every year along with me.
~ Sharon Creech
Earthquake report: Call the paramedics. A girl in fifth grade is about to explode.
~ Sharon M. Draper
You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.
~ Sherman Alexie
I thought maybe if you wore different clothes at school,' Paul said, 'maybe you could start a trend. You'd be original.' 'Oh, my God,' she said. 'It's high school, Dad. People get beat up for being original.
~ Sherman Alexie
Good question. (Acheron) I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian) Nah, mine's even better. How do you hide a chainsaw in your locker at school? I'm thinking they're not going to stop, and while the school has a strict no-weapons policy, I don't think the plastic sporks in the cafeteria are going to do much to combat them. I need protection, man. Serious protection. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah, I'm thinking it's a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let's call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Come on, where did you learn to fight? Miss Manners' School for Girls? My baby sister could hit harder than you when she was three years old. Damn, if you're going to turn Daimon, the least you could do is take a few fighting lessons so you can make my boring job more interesting. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Where'd you learn to drive? (Steele) Richard Petty's School of Driving. Had a great instructor there named Steven Norbert who showed me how to dog the shit out of en engine. Why? (Joe)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.
~ Craig Ferguson
Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.
~ Daniel Quinn
Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.
~ David Henry Hwang
When we're alone together, I'm the destination. When I'm here in her life at school, I'm the disruption.
~ David Levithan
I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.
~ Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.
~ Nat Hentoff
Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
~ Nelson Mandela
Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.
~ Phoebe Fox
We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips!
~ Robert Pattinson
People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!
~ Sara Paxton
Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.
~ Simone Elkeles
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.
~ Stephen Daldry