Quotes About Comprehensive Schools

#1. I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Estelle Morris

#2. Have you ever done anything so significantly outrageous, so beautiful and insane, that on days when your life feels dull, these shining moments leap out? Do you have an answer to the question 'Did I live? Did I touch the world?' (Vin)

Edmond Manning

#3. Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

Tupac Shakur

#4. We can only re-tell stories; we attempt, in doing so, to tell new stories. Is there a way out of this bind? I think the trick is to enter into it completely. Avoid purity. The idea of perfection sounds awfully boring.

Robert Kroetsch

#5. I grabbed my shot of tequila. Then I tossed it back. When I put my empty down to the bar and after I took in a deep breath, I informed her, I like you. I need a new best friend. I've added you to the top of a list that has one name. Yours.

Kristen Ashley

#6. I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

Jane Fonda

#7. If I don't love myself, I won't survive.

Lisa Lopes

#8. It's about having a comprehensive vision that includes things like social supports while providing a high-quality education. It seems obvious, but when you look at schools that are really struggling, you don't see high-quality education.

Pedro Noguera

#9. The only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

Clare Boothe Luce

#10. That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.

John Dewey

#11. Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. POPPY: Justice is so pathetic about her man. If her behavior weren't highly entertaining, we'd force her to stop.

Bijou Hunter

#13. In a country where everyone is trying to be noticed, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

Nicolas Chamfort

#14. He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Let us say plainly: the unredeemed state of the world consists precisely in the failure to understand the meaning of creation, in the failure to recognize truth; as a result, the rule of pragmatism is imposed, by which the strong arm of the powerful becomes the god of this world.

Pope Benedict XVI

#17. You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

Jack Gilbert

#18. Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

Albert Goodwill Spalding