Quotes About School

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample — that fear may be intense.

The lawn of Placerville High School is a very good one. It does not fuck around.

This is the girl they keep calling a monster. I want you to keep that firmly in mind. The girl who could be satisfied with a hamburger and a dime root beer after her only school dance so her momma wouldn't be worried . . .

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

other kids pack lunch

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

The only thing about school he seemed to like was the audience it provided.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.

But at school, I found myself confronted with cruel, aggressive children, many of whom had lost their fathers in the war, or were beaten and neglected by fathers who had returned from the trenches brutalized and half mad. They avenged themselves, at school, for this lack of love at home by turning viciously against other children who were frailer and more sensitive. They

We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school.

They tried to teach you to make lists in grade school, remember? Back when your day planner was the back of your hand. And if your assignments came off in the shower, well, then they didn't get done. No direction, they said. No discipline. So they tried to get you to write it all down somewhere more permanent.

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

The air had that familiar tang of floor polish, socks and stale dinners that most schools share.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

Domani, a scuola, quando ci vedremo, per favore, corrimi incontro. L'ho sperato tutti questi giorni e non è mai successo...

Qué grises eran sus pequeñas cuitas de colegial, comparadas con la epopeya del sufrido y titánico Jean Valjean.

Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

But I've got to go to school, Grandfather." "Poppycock," the Duke thundered. "Sending girls to school in foreign lands – teaching them to jabber away in foreign languages like monkeys. Never could understand why they have such things as foreign languages – or if they have 'em, why anybody with any sense should wish to jabber 'em. Look at me. English is good enough for me.

A sight to make surrounding nations stare, A Kingdom trusted to a school boy's care.

Relax," she said. "We're supposed to be parents inspecting the school for our little girl." She slipped her arm through his, and although she would have thought such a feat impossible, the Lieutenant stood even straighter.