Quotes of: Secondary-school Keyword

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

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

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

Rob Delaney

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

Rosemarie DeWitt

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Richard Ernst

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

Sarah Sutton