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Quotes About School

It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Who needs a school homework assignment to be trustworthy? Sacha said.
~ Ali Smith
Taylor sighed. Going head-to-head with Sharpay on a school assignment was really beneath her. But the more Taylor considered it, the more she liked the idea of seeing her own poem in the paper. After all, the words "published poet" would look awfully good on those Ivy League college applications. "You know what?" Taylor said. "What?" Sharpay snapped. Hands on hips, Taylor stepped forward till the girls were nose-to-nose. "Bring it on.
~ Alice Alfonsi
The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
~ Alice Cooper
Teaching him to be civil and manly and cool In the face of danger. And then before I knew it The time came for him to go off to school. Off to school to be free of women's teaching, Into a world of men--at seven years old; Into a world where a mother's hands vainly reaching Will never again caress and comfort and hold.
~ Alice Duer Miller
What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.
~ Alice Englert
Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins.
~ Alice Steinbach
As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
~ Alice Walker
If I find any more baby Bards in the wild, I shall give up traveling," he said at last. "I'm not running a School.
~ Alison Croggon
Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.
~ Ally Carter
Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.
~ Ally Carter
If you ever put a student at this school in danger again-' 'Oh, I thought you Gallagher Girls were immune to danger.' Despite the hundred girls the filled the foyer, no one moved or gasped or tried to defend our honor. We stood silently, waiting for our headmistress to say, 'Oh, we are quite used to being underestimated, Agent Townsend. In fact, we welcome it.
~ Ally Carter
Gabrielle, Hale?" Kat smacked his shoulder. "It wasn't bad enough that you got me kicked out of school, but you had to use her to help you? Gabrielle!" "I can hear you," her cousin sang beside her. Hale looked at Gabrielle and gestured at Kat. "She's adorable when she's jealous." Kat kicked his shin.
~ Ally Carter
I didn't know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world's premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.
~ Ally Carter
Hello, Gallagher Girl --Zack
~ Ally Carter
Seventh graders jumped onto the backs of FBI agents. Seniors squared off against the CIA.
~ Ally Carter
But even the Gallagher Academy hadn't figured out a way to help us protect our hearts.
~ Ally Carter
I didn't move; I just waited out the night. The school was quiet around me, and I let the silence calm my heartbreak, lull me into a sleepless trance as I stared past my reflection in the dark glass, and whispered, "Happy birthday, Daddy.
~ Ally Carter
It was as if a virus had been injected into our school, but Macey'd known about a thousand boys before she'd come here. And I'd known Josh. The two of us had been exposed to boys before, so we had built up antibodies. We were, in a word, immune.
~ Ally Carter
Macey leveled him with a glare. "My school offers a self-defense class. A good one.
~ Ally Carter
No cell phones?" Macey said as if we'd just told her all students were required to shave their heads and live on bread and water.
~ Ally Carter
What the newbies aren't told on their tour of the school grounds is that Gilly's sword is charged with enough electricity to... well... light your hair on fire. I just love the start of school.
~ Ally Carter
Just so you know Gallagher Girl," he whispered softly, "I'm going to kiss you now.
~ Ally Carter
Oh, is that what I smell?" Mrs. McHenry said with a shudder. (For the record, our school smells just fine, unless of course your smelling ability has been irreparably damaged by a lifetime of sniffing perfume samples.)
~ Ally Carter