Quotes About Classmates

The more challenging question is the moral one: If a child is seriously disruptive, whose interests should we prioritize? The one who needs extra attention and resources to succeed? Or his classmates, whose class time is reduced by his issues and outbursts? It is difficult to overstate how common this dilemma is in schools serving almost entirely low-income children—and how rarely it goes unresolved in schools where affluent Americans send their children.

There were more meetings here of the reunion committee and this kept him busy, especially the assembling of mock yearbooks made up of the classmates' autobiographies that Gloria had accumulated via e-mail. Bev did household chores

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.

I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

Kyrie is a good guy. Spent a lot of time with him over the years because we were the same class in high school and ACC when he was at Duke. Then I was with him my rookie year in Cleveland.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Yeah, I'm thinking it's a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let's call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb)

My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.

Not one of them had found life quite the amusing and triumphant adventure he had expected; and they came back wistfully, longing to recapture their credulous golden days. They believed (for a week) that their classmates were peculiarly set apart from the crooked and exasperating race of men as a whole.

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.

I was willing to do it. I was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

Hey John, I have an early version of The Last Hurrah you left in a class we shared back in 1994. I'd gladly return it to you.

I did not at first appreciate how academically disadvantaged I was—especially compared with classmates from elite prep schools like Andover and Exeter and top-flight public schools like Bronx Science.

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.