- Long
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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
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!
- Nightmare
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, school was a nightmare. I struggled.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
- Back To School
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a revolution taking place in school and college campuses in India, and particularly in Kerala, much like the one that sowed the seeds of Silicon Valley in the U.S.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
- Canvas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020