477 quotes found
“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, ...”
“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed...”
“I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...”
“Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They i...”
“A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy a...”
“My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if sh...”
“Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.”
“No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.”
“Is this what Principal Fontana meant by the phrase 'well-rounded'?It’s fucking spherical, Catamounts.”
“School’s important at the moment.Unsexiest statement ever.”
“School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.”
“School is a pile of crap. School has always been a pile of crap – he had just never bothered to think about it until today.”
“Mrs. Hanks taught that everybody’s bodies were exactly the same. She was ignorant and didn't think much about things, but she was teaching her students to be ignorant too. She was teaching them the...”
“Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.”
“Don’t you know that’s what college is about...students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of t...”
“If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.”
“Education is key. I graduated from high school everyone needs to.”
