Dave Barry Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, School, Mean

  "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits". Book by Dave Barry, 1988.

• We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School - but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.

  Dave Barry

  School, Kids, Sunday

• The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Hate, Educational

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.39, Ballantine Books

• The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

  Dave Barry

  Funny, School, Humor

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.224, Crown Archetype

• England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

• Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.25, Ballantine Books

• I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.40, Ballantine Books

• Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

  Dave Barry

  Food, School, Years

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

• We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.

  Dave Barry

  School, Ignorance, Men

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.8, Ballantine Books

• In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

  Dave Barry

  School, Literature, Students

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.28, Ballantine Books

• I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat.

  Dave Barry

  Halloween, School, White

• When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, School, Mean

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

• I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

  Dave Barry

  Real, School, Two

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.32, Ballantine Books

• I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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