Quotes of: High-school-teacher Keyword

Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perf...

Slaughterhouse-Five

As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be address...

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans ...

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

When I was a senior in high school, I was playing in this local band in our town, and I really wanted to be a musician for a living, and it didn’t look like that was going to happen with my band. So, I enrolled in college and stuff. My senior year ...

Pat Seals

[Marty sees the outside of the Hill Valley High School in 1955] Marty McFly: Whoa. They really cleaned this place up. Looks brand-new. [Marty and Doc walk toward the building] Dr. Emmett Brown: Now, remember. According to my theory, you interfered wi...

Back to the Future

People who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were. She'd said it was always a mistake, to believe those people were different, special, inf...

William Gibson

I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to help. "I could teach them Indian folk dances," I offered, scrounging my mind for school dances in gaudy garments. "Well, I'm not sure that they would be complex enough fo...

Miss Timmins' School for Girls

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Ronald Graham

The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree said he would praise himself if no one else did.

Nigerian

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

With Christ in the School of Prayer

Homosexuality is like a boarding school in which there are no vacations.

Dancer from the Dance

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

Jeremy Irons

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

Sydney Brenner

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

Nick Frost

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Daniel Clowes

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

John Kricfalusi

She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.

The School of Essential Ingredients

I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.

New School & Other Stuff

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

John Engler

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

Philip Emeagwali

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Sufjan Stevens