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Quotes About Homework

K-12 teachers. Many work in classrooms for as many as thirty-five hours a week; on top of that they must assign, read, and comment on homework, prepare and grade exams, and develop next week's lesson plans.
~ James W. Loewen
I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative.
~ Tom Petty
I loved the Rolling Stones. I heard a little bit of country music creeping around the edges of some of their songs. Being a Mississippi kid, I could feel they had done their homework, even when I was a little boy. I could feel the Delta blues influence in a lot of their work.
~ Marty Stuart
When I say 'homeschooled,' I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they'd give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.
~ Rich Brian
My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, 'Where's your homework?' and I'd be like, 'I don't have none.' She'd be like, 'I'ma call your teacher.'
~ Bryson Tiller
I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.
~ Josie Loren
In Bangor, she'd had no incentive to do homework—her foster parents were partiers, and she'd come home from school to find a house full of drunks. In Spruce Harbor, there aren't so many distractions. Dina and Ralph don't drink or smoke, and they're strict. Jack has a beer now and then, but that's about it. And Molly discovered that she actually likes to study.
~ Christina Baker Kline
The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
~ Henry Jenkins
Please don't tell me you're going to go to Fillory so you can get more homework done," Alice said. "Because that would be the saddest thing I've ever heard.
~ Lev Grossman
When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.
~ Julie Andrews
But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when you're right. That can be the tagline of my life: 'It's Easy To Make A Fuss When You're Right.'
~ Ayelet Waldman
I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.
~ Lily Allen
She went to CLASSES. And STUDIED. And had HOMEWORK. And did projects with OTHER DRAGONS. It was SO WEIRD.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Wriiiiiiting," he whined. "That sounds like homework. Nobody said the revolution would involve homework.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
~ Bil Keane
I want a tutor," Layla said. "It would make doing homework so much easier." "Me too," said Kaitlyn. "If Layla gets one, I get one." "No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor," Dad said. "What if we're failing a course?" asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. "If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life.
~ Claire LaZebnik
To choose the right dog," he said, "you'll need to do your homework." "I finished my homework," said Amelia Bedelia.
~ Unknown
We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the break at half-past-nine not freaking out, you have to cram. I'm not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam's homework, bit if it is, his physics teacher is awesome.
~ Holly Black
So you're not going to die, are you? she [Astor] asked politely. Not yet, I said. Not until after you do your homework. She nodded, glanced toward the kitchen, and said, I hate math. Then she wandered away down the hall, presumably to hate math at closer range.
~ Jeff Lindsay
dds are you've picked up this book because you're fed up with your child's distracted behavior. You're tired of the missed homework
~ Unknown
When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.
~ Unknown
I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.
~ Steven Tyler
You would think, because I stayed to myself and I was shy, that I'd be a good student, but actually, I was a bad student. I was in detention a lot, mainly for cutting, being late to class. I was in tardy hall a lot. I hate the idea of homework. I don't get it.
~ Bryson Tiller
When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
~ Martin O'Malley