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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"
"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."
"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."
"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."
"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."
Explore more quotes by Maya Lin
"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."
"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."
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