Quotes About Detention

I defend non-criminal detention.

I was quite capable at school, but I spent a lot of time in detention.

I wasn't a very well-behaved girl. I was often in detention for impertinence.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

I have this bookmark with glued-on macaroni. I made it in the fourth grade while in detention for giving a girl a tattoo using two rocks rubbed together and a stick.

Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio. I tried to be the class clown, so I spent a lot of time in detention.

The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.

Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep.

Finally, our own Devils hulk into the gym. The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.

But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.

Detention does not sound appealing. I do my homework - choose five verbs and conjugate them. To translate: traducir. I traducate. To flunk: fracasar. Yo am almost fracasaring. To hide: esconder. To escape: escapar To forget: olvidar.

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

buddy. You'd better get back to class." "School's over." "Oh," she said. "Don't you usually have detention, or something?" He sagged. "Yeah," he said, and trudged off.

Maybe you can see from this that I am quite familiar with being in detention. Matter of fact, I feel like I have always been in detention. I am an old veteran of detention, like one of Napoleon's soldiers limping back from the battle of Moscow. No, not like them--they were chumps. More like--one of the girls who died in the Triangle Fire looking out the window and realizing it is too far to jump, then jumping.

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.

I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.

There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.

I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time.

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

Asimismo, la administración de los Estados Unidos hizo caso omiso de las reuniones secretas del gabinete interior de Arafat, que derivaron en la detención de numerosos oponentes políticos.