School Days Quotes

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

  Susan Cain

  School, Kids, Needs

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.253, Broadway Books

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Freedom, War

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

  Jackie Kennedy

  School, Rope, Tonight

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• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Your Positive Plan for Love and Happiness”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Every day is a school day. I learn something new every day, and I never know what's going to happen next.

  Michelle Mone

  School, Next, Something New

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, School, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Believe, Learning

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage

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• Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly your in Lord of the Flies for 40 minutes. Your hanging from a rope, you have hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you, kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's Science,Language, and History. Now that is a weird day.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Faces, Gone, Joyful

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

  Winston Churchill

  School, Race, Discouraged

  "A Roving Commission".

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• My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

  Paul Merton

  School, Past, Years

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• Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.

  Jim Benton

  Teacher, Jobs, Home

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• You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

  Paul McCartney

  Teenage, School, Years

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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• The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for sure, no one at school knows it's your birthday anymore. It's not like when you're little and your mom brings cupcakes for the whole class. But even though no one knows, you walk around like it's supposed to be a national holiday. You walk around thinking that people are supposed to be nice to you, like maybe on your birthday you're ten times more breakable than on any other day. Well, it doesn't work that way. It just doesn't.

  A.M. Homes

  Mom, Nice, School

  A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.199, Granta Books

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• I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Teacher, School, Writing

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• School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, School, Boys

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage

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• Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.

  Neil Peart

  School, Adults, Extroverts

  "Q and A with Neil Peart of Rush". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.macleans.ca. August 13, 2012.

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• I discovered on school days, when they've got to get up at 6:30, they won't get out of bed. But on the weekends, they were up at 6 a.m. I was like, "Why do you guys wake up so early on the weekends?" It's like, "Because I wake up and I think, Is it a TV day? And if it is..." So we had to change that rule. I'm like, "Thank you for telling me what I need to do."

  Julie Bowen

  School, Weekend, Thinking

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

  A. N. Wilson

  Birthday, School, Exercise

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• Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dad, School, Hands

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.19, Harlequin

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• I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

  Ayn Rand

  School, Men, Russia

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• I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  School, Boys, College

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