Quotes of: Middle-school Keyword

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. "What on earth will you be doing with something so large?" said Mum. "I shall live in it with my servants, of course," said Mina. "Or I shall establish a school." "...

My Name is Mina

...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises t...

Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Marlin: [exasperated] Would somebody please just give me directions? [School of fish take shape of clown fish with sour expression] School of Fish: [mockingly] Would somebody please just give me directions? Marlin: I'm serious! School of Fish: Blah-b...

Finding Nemo

Wolverine: How long have you been here? Bobby: Couple of years, it's not so bad. Wolverine: What about your parents, they just shipped you off to mutant school? Bobby: Actually, my parents think this is a prep school. Wolverine: Well, I guess lots of...

X2

Between the poorest 50 percent (who own 5 percent of total wealth, or an average of 20,000 euros each in the example [Europe 2010]) and the richest 10 percent (who own 60 percent of total wealth, or an average of 1.2 million euros each) lies the midd...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man Amid the doctors in the Temple at twelve, between mother & host at Cana implored too soon, in the middle of disciples, the midst of the mob, between High-Priest and Procurator, among the occupiers, between the malefa...

Delusions, Etc.

Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat should not be eaten in these three instances. I say that t...

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned the Dhamma, they do not examine the meaning of those teachings...

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them. He made an exception in the case of the Croix de ...

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Things can go three ways—left, right, or straight. If you stand on one side, either the left or the right, you will have the quickest reaction 1/3rd of the time, the second quickest reaction 1/3rd of the time, and the slowest reaction 1/3rd of the ...

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way h...

A Visit from the Goon Squad

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

Ahmet Zappa

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

11/22/63

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

Restless Spirits

I had a couple of friends in high school. And by a couple I mean my parents.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Casey's flesh and blood sends the war machine's children to exclusive private schools.

Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Alanis Morissette

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

Ricardo Semler

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

Tina Fey

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

Narada Michael Walden