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Quotes About School

I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.
~ Mitch Albom
Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.
~ Mitch Albom
Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything in school?
~ Monica Wood
Children were taught to sound out the letters of the alphabet individually
~ Mortimer J. Adler
You know, Sandy said, these are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives. Yes, they are always saying that, Jenny said. They say, make the most of your schooldays because you never know what lies ahead of you.
~ Muriel Spark
Now that was when I felt the [citizenship school] program was successful when it was no longer even part of an organization.
~ Myles Horton
My first memory of school is of taking an apple to the teacher. This puzzles me. We had no apples on Isabella. It must have been an orange; yet my memory insists on the apple.
~ Naipaul VS
Thorgil's going to the School of Bards? Jack said... I'm not even sure what a school is, said Thorgil. Neither am I, admitted Jack... Come on, Jill. We can get through this.
~ Nancy Farmer
You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies.
~ Naomi Novik
Yeah, Aadhya agreed. The school wants you to go maleficer. What could you do if you decided to start using malia? If you had me make a list of the top ten questions I go to great lengths to avoid asking myself, that one would have comprehensively covered items one through nine, and the only reason it wasn't doing for item ten as well was that So how do you feel about Orion Lake had quietly crept onto the bottom of it. But it's a long way from the rest.
~ Naomi Novik
But for my part, I did feel very much like i'd just been put against the wall by the most dragonish dinner lady at primary school.
~ Naomi Novik
De school. De hele school. Wij gaan weg en we vullen de hele school met mals.' Ik staarde haar aan. 'En dan? Schoppen we het hele zwikkie de leegte in of zo?' 'Ja!' zei Liu.
~ Naomi Novik
I was a fool, and I will always be a fool, and there will never, never, be a last day of school.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The Christian School has a team called the Warriors--WELCOME BACK WARRIORS! shouts the banner over the road. But the billboard in front of the school says the Trait for the Week is peace. Victor feels alarmed about entering such a facility. He may come out confused. He may emerge wearing a black armband, carrying a spear.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
As we milled about before the meeting, I noticed the school had removed all the hallway lockers — "because of COVID." What this meant in practice was that the students, whose bodies were still growing and developing, had to carry an entire locker's worth of schoolbooks, seventy-plus pounds worth, in backpacks all day long.
~ Naomi Wolf
blue skies of Barcelona. I took a taxi to the school, where I expected to be
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
En el colegio dicen que soy un poco raro [...] -Pues es una suerte. Empiece a preocuparse el día que le digan que es usted normal.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Hayley Haslett raised her hand and tapped on the door.
~ Carol Rose
Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
school before me, and we'd see her
~ Carolyn Brown
Let's go into the sanctuary or the adult Sunday school room
~ Carolyn Brown
The girl shook her head. "I feel I'm not wanted. The letter wasn't cordial. Oh dear, what shall I do?" Nancy gave Laura a hug. "You'll be at school and during vacations you can visit friends. And you have a new friend named Nancy Drew!
~ Carolyn Keene
The stress of it all. How the hell are we expected at the age of sixteen (and seventeen, in your case) to decide what we want to do for the rest of our lives? Right now all I want to do is get out of school, not start planning to get into another one. You're lucky you've always known what you want to do.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Dear Ms. Dunne, I was hoping that you could come to the school to discuss Katie's rapidly deteriorating behavior in class. Her attention span is short and she distracts other students by her note-passing. How does Wednesday after school sound? You can reach me at the school. You know the number. Ms. Casey To Katie, What do you mean your mum just laughed? From Toby Ahern, Cecelia (2005-02-01). Love, Rosie (p. 99). Hachette Books. Kindle Edition.
~ Cecelia Ahern