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Quotes About School

Average people get to school late; they're average. They barely do their school work.
~ Eric D. Thomas
I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.
~ Jesse McCartney
I was the head girl in school and also a national level basketball player.
~ Urvashi Rautela
I mean, I wasn't the best student in school. It would be different if I were to pursue music while I was already in school and doing things for my parents to be proud of and music was a side thing. Being that I dropped everything to do music, they was not with it.
~ Brent Faiyaz
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.
~ Mike Birbiglia
And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.
~ Mel Tillis
The life I remember begins at Imperia, where I went to school, including the Ginnasio-Liceo 'De Amicis.'
~ Renato Dulbecco
I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.
~ Jim Sturgess
I grew up in Belgium and my best friends in school was one African kid and one from Asia.
~ Nikola Vucevic
A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.
~ Munira Mirza
I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
~ Vanessa Ray
three Crossroads sophomores were shoveling snow with a zeal that suggested their work was voluntary.
~ Jonathan Franzen
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~ Jonathan Franzen
When a school board hires just one woman to retrieve 400 missing children from the streets of the North Bronx, we may reasonably conclude that it does not particularly desire to find them. If 100 of these children startled us by showing up at school, moreover, there would be no room for them in P.S. 94. The building couldn't hold them.
~ Jonathan Kozol
A polarization of this issue, whereby some insist upon the primacy of school, others upon the primacy of family and neighborhood, obscures the fact that both are elemental forces in the lives of children. The family, however, differs from the school in the significant respect that government is not responsible, or at least not directly, for the inequalities of family background. It is responsible for inequalities in public education.
~ Jonathan Kozol
A group of boys lumbered down the halls of Adas Israel, laughing, punching, blood rushing from developing brains to developing genitals and back again in the zero-sum game of puberty.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opposed to mentioning intelligent design. Yet Darwinists have been discussing ID in public school science classes for years... Biology textbooks have been mentioning intelligent design since the late 1990s—but only to misrepresent and disparage it.
~ Jonathan Wells
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time: it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
~ A. N. Wilson
If you wanted reflections on the nature of the universe and your place in it, you should have stayed in school. You want fart noises and cock jokes, I'm your man.
~ A.J. Hartley
En fait, la majorité de nos meilleurs étudiants, que ce soit à l'école ou à l'université, sombrent plus tard dans la médiocrité. Leur intérêt pour le succès est dû en grande partie à la pression familiale et non à l'intérêt réel qu'ils prennent au sujet. (p. 223)
~ A.S. Neill
Fiona only spoke when called upon and always sighed her way through answers as if school were the ultimate inconvenience. She was unknowable in the way that all girls are unknowable, but also in her own way.
~ Aaron Starmer
And at school there was little or no time for those other stories, just an orderly accumulation of the real knowledge they brought to us, in books they made available to us, in a language they taught us.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah