- Lose
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.
- High Schools
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.
- Problem
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
- Home
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.
- City
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.
- Convent
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
- Graduate School
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.
- Influence
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood.
- Destiny
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.
- Literature
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
- Opera
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
- Developments
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
- High
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.
- Parents
- |
- Nov 07, 2020