Quotes About School

She might even — and this will make you jump — she might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment.

When I was twelve, my mother said to me, 'I've entered you for Marlborough and Repton. Which would you like to go to?' Both were famous Public Schools, but that was all I knew about them. 'Repton,' I said. 'I'll go to Repton.' It was an easier word to say than Marlborough. 'Very well,' my mother said. 'You shall go to Repton.

In dog obedience school we learned that if you want an undesirable behavior to go away, you stop paying attention to it.

Angry at his parents and all grown-ups who thought that school life was a lark, a good time, the best years of your life with a few test and quizzes thrown in to keep you on your toes. Bullshit. There was nothing good about it. Tests were daily battles in the larger war of school. School meant rules and orders and commands. To say nothing of homework.

A girl came out of the school. She was thin, and wispy, and appeared to be fifteen or sixteen. She stopped outside the doors, lit a cigarette, and inhaled hard enough to inflate her body. I watched her smoke, and waited. Sooner or later, she would finish the cigarette or smoke herself to death.

Then perhaps you should consider that Samuel's presence might very well be a perfect opportunity to put into practice some of the principles to which this school, and this parish, give lip service—to love one another and to display compassion to those who are different.

Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.

In that moment of educational ennui, a freshman girl says, "I can bring a human brain to school if you want–my father has lots of them." (Talk about a full-scale class alert: She's going to do WHAT?!")

I don't go to school, I don't have parents, I came from the sea to be your husband.

For a few unfortunate kids, winter did not spell the end of the school year. There were the so-called voluntary winter courses. No kid I knew ever volunteered to go to these classes; parents, of course, did the volunteering for them.

Winter was every kid's favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was simple: They shut down school for the icy season. Winter to me was the end of long division and naming the capital of Bulgaria, and the start of three months of playing cards by the stove with Hassan, free Russian movies on Tuesday mornings at Cinema Park, sweet turnip qurma over rice for lunch after a morning of building snowmen.

Prošle sedmice Bibi jo donijela je vijest da Jalilove k?erke Saideh i Naheed trebaju krenuti u Mehrijinu djevoja?ku školu u Heratu. Otad su se misli o u?ionici i u?iteljima kovitlale u Mariaminoj glavi, slike sveski sa linijama, stupci brojeva i olovke što ostavljaju taman, debeo trag. Zamišljala je sebe u u?ionici sa drugim djevoj?icama njenih godina. Žudjela je za tim da stavi linijar na stranicu sveske, i vu?e crte koje izgledaju važno.

A l'école, nous jouions à un jeu appelé sherganji, la bataille des poèmes.

Now that he was in school, he had his own life. He no longer liked to site and cuddle with her unless he was sick or wanted her to read him a story before bed.

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn't say I was going to be there.

Anything is possible on Fasnacht, Art said. Let's go find the guggenmusikplatz, I like those bands. Guggenmusik? You know, brass bands. They're mostly school band reunions, and they play really loudly and out of tune. On purpose? Yes. It's a Swiss thing, I think. On festival night you're supposed to go wild, so for them that means playing your French horn out of tune!

which the other children at school had ridiculed Serena about daily. Of course, this latter part hadn't been something Diane could relate to because unlike Serena's deadbeat father, whom Serena still had never met, Diane's father had taken her school shopping at the start of every school year. He'd gifted her with some of the

best clothing money could buy, and then he would give Diane even more clothing at Christmastime. And if that hadn't already been enough, he also made sure to buy Diane a whole new summer wardrobe at the end of every school year.

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

School field trips had always been a welcome escape from routine, particularly when they'd involved aquariums or grown-ups dressed in colonial costumes.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.