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School Quotes


"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."


"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."


"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."


"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."


"I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill."


"I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue."


"I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade."


"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."


"I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in."



"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."



"Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with."


"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."


"High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again."


"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."


"Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind."


"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."


"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A."


"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."


"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."



"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."
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