- Loved
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- 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
- Enrolled
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up, I've realised how much I enjoy escaping into a world that I've created myself. So I've kept that up as a hobby.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a student of a business school in Delhi and went back for my final semester exams.
- Convent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.
- Disrupted
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
- Conferred
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- Nov 07, 2020
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020