Quotes of: Catholic-schools Keyword

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

Freaky Freshman: A Memoir of Bullying and Social Anxiety

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare - creepily peculiar.

Furry Friends

Among the world's evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation— smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.

The Financial Lives of the Poets

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which was the main thing.

Growing Up Absurd

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

He could be disciplined when he wanted to be.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Heart-Shaped Box

I dislike the idea of a murderer employing children,' said Holmes darkly. ‘It is, I agree, bad for their morals, and interferes with their sleep.’ ‘And their schooling,’ added Holmes sententiously.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

The Birds That Never Flew

The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.

Broken Harbour

If I could cook I wouldn’t have to study my ass off at school and I would have tried to find a man to support me as his lovely wife.

Blue Ice

We are in a boy recession," Eugene repeats. "There's been a sudden, drastic decrease in the male population at this school. And I'm gonna take advantage of it.

The Boy Recession

Great. Darcy is the ruler of our school. Prety soon, Julius is going to be like Singapore - you'll get a $500 fine for chewing gum or making out in the hallways.

The Boy Recession

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.

Bruiser

Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.

City of Ashes

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

Alex Lifeson

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.

Audra McDonald