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"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
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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."

"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."
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"I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character."

"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."

"I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years."

"Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field."

"The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics."

"Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact."

"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."

"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me."
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