Quotes of: Private-schools Keyword

Barbara Covett: When I was at school, if one of us had had some bad news or was a bit down, we used to stroke each other. You know, someone would do one arm and someone else the other. It was a wonderful sensation. Did you do that at your school? She...

Notes on a Scandal

Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home - everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment - masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from ourselves.

Contradictionary

Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.

Cold Skin

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.

The Children and the Wolves

His body was perfect. His parents were loaded. His grades were terrible. He was a high school girl’s dream come true.

Chronicles of a Mermaid Out of Water

The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

Educating the Net Generation: How to Engage Students in the 21st Century

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Ender's Game

He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.

Ender's Game

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

The Element -inth in Greek

...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.

The Everyday Writer

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