3,403 Quotes About School

  • Author Marina Warner
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    I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

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  • Author Michael Welch
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    In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

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  • Author Nicky Whelan
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    Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

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  • Author Olivia Wilde
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    It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

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  • Author Olivia Wilde
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    Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

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  • Author Oprah Winfrey
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    I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

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