Quotes about School

Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse. In that vise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school. Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne without saying a word. But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.

Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate not head—clear across.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.