3,403 Quotes About School


  • Author Alia Shawkat
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    I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

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  • Author Alicia Silverstone
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    When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

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  • Author Alice Sebold
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    Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd seen Lindsey walking home with Samuel and seen her smile with him. She watched as my sister said yes to pancakes and no to everything else. She had tried to imagine herself being my sister as she had spent time imagining being me.

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  • Author Amartya Sen
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    When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.

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  • Author Amity Shlaes
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    In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

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  • Author Andy Samberg
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    You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

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  • Author Anna Deavere Smith
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    Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

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