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Quotes About School

I count all the way to sixty, a stupid smile plastered on my stupid face. I will not get detention. I will not get expelled. I will be good. I will be quiet. I will be still.
~ Jennifer Niven
Where did you go to school?" Piers inquired. "Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.
~ Eloisa James
at keltner's deli, everything was somehow neutralized. they were girls. they were girls with odd names who smoked after school together and maybe sometimes alone.
~ Emily Franklin
CLOSED FOR FORESEEABLE FUTURE BY ORDER OF BOARD OF HEALTH. I thought of the young Noonans; if slum children weren't going to school these days, they couldn't be getting their free dinners there.
~ Emma Donoghue
said no more. 'Funny girl!' she said to Darrell.
~ Enid Blyton
The third formers drank all this in avidly, casting sidelong glances at Esme to see how she was taking this.
~ Enid Blyton
Curso de invierno en Torres de Malory Un curso divertido en Torres de Malory
~ Enid Blyton
2 In the fourth form
~ Enid Blyton
Freddie gave a laugh, and said, 'Who do you suspect, June? Mam'zelle Dupont perhaps?
~ Enid Blyton
Those first form kids!' said Tessie, in disgust. 'Honestly, they ought to be in a kindergarten, the way they behave!
~ Enid Blyton
Kitty at St Clare's
~ Enid Blyton
I was going past the end of the hall and I saw Mam'zelle banging at Mr Young for all she was worth with the clothes brush,' she panted.
~ Enid Blyton
whispering. What a bit of news to spread round the school. What a row. And wasn't June MARVELLOUS! 'Honestly!
~ Enid Blyton
as head-girl of the form, and
~ Enid Blyton
No Fletcher. Wake up, boy. Those are the flames of Hell. Dermont dropped out of school, so that's where he's headed. See the little horns? -Ms. Quinn
~ Eoin Colfer
She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counselors are nothing more than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl
~ Eoin Colfer
School trip, Mother. Skiing in Austria.
~ Eoin Colfer
No. Instead from school it's straight off to the theatre, to a gladiatorial game, to an athletic show or the circus. Then from there you come back here, and from here, off you go again, the same people, the same pursuits – [15] you show no serious discipline, concern, or care for yourself.
~ Epictetus
When we speak of authority at present we usually have in mind governmental authority. Actually, social order is most firm when imposed and maintained by the limited authorities of family, school, church, job, neighborhood and so on. In 1848 the Spaniard Donoso-Cortés predicted that "when religious discipline ceases to exist there cannot be enough of government; all despotisms will not be sufficient." This holds true to some extent of the other minor authorities.
~ Eric Hoffer
I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
~ Amanda Burton
All men are good at exit lines," Harriette said as she removed her opera glass from her beaded reticule. "They use them so frequently, you know. It seems they are always walking out. Off to school, off to war, off to their clubs, or off to their mistresses." Sophy considered that briefly. "I'd say it was not so much a case of walking out as it is of running away.
~ Amanda Quick
And later in school I developed an interior life that was split obviously like the exterior life. One half-tied to Dey Street while we still lived there and the black life of the playground and streets. And the other tied to the school experiences of McKinley and Barringer. It must be true, maybe obvious, that the schizophrenic tenor of some of my life gets fueled from these initial sources (and farther back with words whispered into the little boy's ear, from mouths and radios).
~ Amiri Baraka
The radio, I've told over and again, was always another school for my mind. I listened to the radio all my young life, seriously and continuously, changing my focus, I guess, as I changed. The TV must serve the same purpose now for kids.
~ Amiri Baraka
I'm sure lots of schools have students who are able to form bonds of friendship across sexual identity stereotypes... even in Iowa
~ Amy Jo Cousins