Quotes About School

I went to a school two hours away from where I lived because it was the best rugby school in the country.

A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.

Success starts in the household and with education.

We learn English from fifth grade on in school, and I was an exchange student when I was 17 in Houston.

When you go to pick your kids up from school, cars are lined up idling for anywhere from five to 20 minutes. Starting a 'no idling' rule in your school carpool lane could have a huge impact.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

Ive always done accents and stupid voices. But I went to school in Hampstead, where most of my mates were Jewish, and Jewish North London humour is so clever that I never thought I was funny.

I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

The modulating principle of "salary according to merit" has not failed to tempt national education itself. Indeed, just as the corporation replaces the factory, perpetual training tends to replace the school, and continuous control to replace the examination. Which is the surest way of delivering the school over to the corporation.

My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too.

Cautious, the way Ben always was. At a family party, on the last day of school, he looked the same, a kid who lived permanently in the library - waiting to be shushed.

Come on, who saw what happened? I did, I volenteered. Well? Buttwipe wanted to know what jerkface was looking at. I turned turned eyes on the bloody and dirt-smeared brawlers. You were barely 3-inches apart. Couldn't you see that you were both looking at each other? The teacher's face reddened. Who do you think you are? Jerry Seinfeld? You must be confused with another student, I told him. My name is Capricorn Anderson.

They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?

Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947 On registration day at taxidermy school I distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed moose Move.

actually saw myself finishing out the year in this class I don't belong in, in this school I don't really go to. And in this town where my only connection is the fact that my parents grew up here.

Then a crisis arose. Feldstein imposed a school-wide, comprehensive locker ban on the project.

The calendar appears in my mind, that magical date in June circled in gold Sharpie. Only 172 more school days to go.

And believe me, it's not—repeat, not—because Aldo asked me to the Fall Ball, which is this big dance they throw before Thanksgiving break.

I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

I had a great time at school. The experience was quite fulfilling, especially going to the World Series.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.