Classmates Quotes

• My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

  Emo Philips

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• Yeah, I’m thinking it’s a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let’s call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Idiot, Reunion

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Infinity: Chronicles of Nick”, p.395, Macmillan

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• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  Natalie Portman

  School, Dork

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• I am still a student. My classmates study really hard, so I feel like I should too. But they always say things like: “You don't have to.”, “Aren't you busy?”, “Just give up, you have another way.”; But I don't think that's right. There's no reason for me to give up, I didn't quit high school.

  Seohyun

  Giving Up, School, Thinking

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• A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

  James S. Coleman

  Teacher, Children, Characteristics

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• Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

  Bennett Cerf

  Birthday, Age, Middle

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• The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a while, it backs up into your system like stagnant water and turns toxic, poisoning your spirit. When this happens, you don't have many choices available. You can become a bitter loner who goes through life being pissed off at the world; you can fester with rage until one day you murder your classmates. Or, you can find another outlet for your love, where it will be appreciated and maybe even returned.

  Jodee Blanco

  Love You, Long, Giving

  Jodee Blanco (2010). “Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story”, p.139, Adams Media

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• I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

  Erno Rubik

  Bohemian

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• Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine.

  Dacia Maraini

  Writing, Publishing House, Ideas

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Cape Cod (Annotated Edition)”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

  Lucy Hawking

  School, Class, Nicknames

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

  Joyce Meyer

  Sports, Lonely, Party

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• Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Teacher, Flirting, Way

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• While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Reading, Textbooks, Margins

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• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com

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• I really was more sexual than my classmates.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

  Benjamin Carson

  Stupid, Agreement, Students

  "Saving America: Dr. Benjamin Carson's fight for real change". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I never imagined getting to do what I love for a living and having so many people appreciate it. There was only one other skater in my high school and we were the lowest form of cool. Our classmates couldn't figure out why we liked such a loser sport, or why we hadn't grown out of it yet.

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, School, People

  Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, School, Yale

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

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• People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

  Daniel Handler

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Children, Sibling, Home

  "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Teacher, School, People

  "The Last Book" by Simon Soloveychik, (Ch. 20), 1999.

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• In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.

  Sarah Chalke

  Taken, School, Roles

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• So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian.

  Chris Tucker

  Girl, Comedian, Clubs

  "Chris Tucker earns, dreams big". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2001.

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• I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Teacher, Self, Envy

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.135, Vintage

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