Quotes of: School-districts Keyword

Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.

Alexa Vega

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Bruce Boxleitner

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

Vicki Lawrence

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

A. Whitney Brown

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

Wyclef Jean

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

Yara Shahidi

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

Portia de Rossi

The ground for the necessity of Christian schools lies in this very thing, that no fact can be known unless it be known in its relationship to God. And once this point is clearly seen, the doubt as to the value of teaching arithmetic in Christian sch...

The Case for Classical Christian Education

Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be ...

Big Little Lies

...Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

Don't forget that your happiness is the most important thing, and that you should never equate your GPA or school with your sense of self-worth. . . . If you're feeling overwhelmed, take a step back and remind yourself that you are not your grades.

The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

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

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