Quotes of: School-system Keyword

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

Susan Faludi

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Robert De Niro

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

Aaron Huey

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

Benazir Bhutto

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Bill Vaughan

We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.

William S. Burroughs

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

P. J. O'Rourke

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

Rick Atkinson

But I know I didn't love school for school's sake. I had never really been what people call an 'academic' person, nor did I see myself becoming one. Instead, I took pleasure in the fact that my work existed in a social setting, one that was based on ...

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

Carrie

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Divinity School Address

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies

Girls don't go to law school," I told him. "No, but women do.

Fairy Tales Can Come True: How a Driven Woman Changed Her Destiny

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn’t good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

Great Listener Series Mute Women

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

I always thought high school was supposed to be a time for finding yourself, but I guess that's only if you fit into the mold people have made for you.

Beneath His Darkness

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

Charles Kuralt

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Dominique Dawes

When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.

Philipp Meyer

By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still ...

Sal Albanese