List Of School Quotes

All Of Those On The Left, As I Am, Have Always Vastly Preferred The Democratic Society Over The Hierarchical Society And Still Do, But The Democratic Culture Doesn't Exist Without Highly Informed Citizens Capable Of Thinking Well, And If You Have Schools In Which 40 Percent Of The People Coming Out Of Them Cannot Make Change For A Dollar, You Don't Have A Democracy. You Have A Sibling Society.

By The Time A Man Is 35 He Knows That The Images Of The Right Man, The Tough Man, The True Man Which He Received In High School Do Not Work In Life.

We Are Living At An Important And Fruitful Moment Now, For It Is Clear To Men That The Images Of Adult Manhood Given By The Popular Culture Are Worn Out; A Man Can No Longer Depend On Them. By The Time A Man Is Thirty-five He Knows That The Images Of The Right Man, The Tough Man, The True Man Which He Received In High School Do Not Work In Life.

My Dad Was In The Army. The Army's Not Great Pay, But, You Know, We Moved From Army Patch To Army Patch Wherever That Was. The Army Also Contributed To Sending Me Off To Boarding School.

Being Sent Away To Boarding School At Seven Is As Great An Inspiration As Any Songwriter Could Have - To Be Taken Away From One's Family And Locked Away For 10 Years. It Does Create An Incredible Intensity Of Emotion.

I'm Definitely Not A Science Nerd. That Was Not My Forte At School.

People Quit On Jobs. They Quit On Marriages. They Quit On School. There's An Immediacy Of This Day And Age That Doesn't Lend Itself To Being Committed To Anything.

I Love To Talk With Children. I Try To Visit Schools But It's Hard For Me To Travel When I'm Trying To Write. Some Authors Are Able To Do Both.

During The Second World War, Evacuated To Non-jewish Households, I Encountered Christianity At Home And In School.

I Studied French In High School And German In College And I Once Took A 24-hour Italian Crash Course. English Has By Far The Most Words In It Of Any Other Language. Our Money Might Not Be Worth Anything Anymore, But The Language Is.

Doctors And Lawyers Must Go To School For Years And Years, Often With Little Sleep And With Great Sacrifice To Their First Wives.

The Mistake That Was Made In The '70s Is We Stopped Policing The Streets, We Stopped Cleaning The Streets, We Stopped Cleaning The Graffiti Off Buildings, We Stopped Supporting Our Cultural Institutions And Building Parks And Schools And All Those Kinds Of Things.