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

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

    Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Your Positive Plan for Love and Happiness”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
  • School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage
  • 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: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.
  • 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.

    Teacher   School   Years  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

  • The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.

  • Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

    Morning   Children   Home  
  • All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

    Faces   Gone   Joyful  
    "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)
  • 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.

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

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

    Dad   School   Hands  
    Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.19, Harlequin
  • Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.

    "Boys will be boys" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
  • Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.

    School   Drawing   Awards  
  • My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

  • I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

    School   Mba   Medicine  
  • 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.

    Teacher   Jobs   Home  
  • The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

    Girl   Morning   Party  
    Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.344, Pan Macmillan
  • Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.

  • 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.

    "Q and A with Neil Peart of Rush". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.macleans.ca. August 13, 2012.
  • Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

  • I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, picnics in Paghman.

    Summer   Brother   Party  
    Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.
  • Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.

    "The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling". Book by Quinn Cummings, 2012.
  • 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.

    School   Boys   College  
  • I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

    School   Fans   Inspired  
  • 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.

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

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

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

  • An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

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