Quotes About First Day Of Class

#1. Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.

Norm Sloan

#2. Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class.

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. Nah. But on the first day of class, when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew these people weren't fooling around.' " Lank

Anne Lamott

#4. On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge.

Chip Kidd

#5. Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.

Betty Smith

#6. I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

Anton Chekhov

#7. We have a tendency to worship great people but do not adapt their ideas in our lives.

Girdhar Joshi

#8. On a good day, I'm a first class prick, but even I know that being treated like you're disposable is something no one should ever be used to.

Melyssa Winchester

#9. What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

Gloria Steinem

#10. Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.

Valentina Zelyaeva

#11. Interestingly, the only class that Eric actually enjoyed in Korea was math. He noticed it on his first day of school. Something was very different about how math was taught in Korea. Something that not even Minnesota had figured out.

Amanda Ripley

#12. From the day he first walked through the door of the Oval Office, President Obama's top priority has been growing our economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding middle class security.

Denis McDonough

#13. Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.

Steve Yarbrough

#14. She comforted him in his darkness and gave him hope. She seemed to cherish a sincere affection for him, despite his failings. 'She saved me'.

Sylvain Reynard

#15. I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

Jesse Eisenberg

#16. I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational.

Jane Leeves

#17. All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

Joshua Lederberg

#18. On the first day of the arts and crafts class i had nothing really prepared, so i asked everyone to draw themselves. When i looked at the drawings i felt faint. All of the students were Black, yet the drawings depicted a lot of blond-haired, blue-eyed little white children. I was horrified.

Assata Shakur

#19. I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

Bill Cosby

#20. People who come first in class never get good marks in the report card of Life. After all who asks you your CGPA on your last day?

Laksh Kishore

#21. The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

Sandra Cisneros

#22. Lee stood in front of the class the first day and said, "Anybody who makes fun of romance fiction is making fun of Jane Austen, and anybody who makes fun of Jane Austen answers to me." Why yes, I would walk across broken glass for that man. Why do you ask?

Jennifer Crusie

#23. The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#24. You're crazy," said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school.
"They said that about all the great visionaries."
"You know who else they said it about?" Angela demanded. "All the actual crazy people.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#25. From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.

Clayton M Christensen

#26. On the first day of middle school I wore high-heeled shoes that you weren't allowed to wear. I remember being so embarrassed because in every class I went to they kept pointing out that I couldn't wear these shoes. I wanted to call my mom and have her bring me new shoes!

Emma Stone

#27. A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#28. Well, here's all you need to know. Classes, nothing before 11. Beer, its your best friend, you drink a lot of it. Women, you're a freshman, so its pretty much out of the question. Will you have a car? ... Someone on your hall will, find them and make friends with them on the first day.

Jeremy Piven

#29. I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

John Irving

#30. To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

Ai Yazawa

#31. The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!

Max Reinhardt

#32. Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

Bruce Lee

#33. Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.

Soman Chainani

#34. And then he was there, staring at me from behind the screen door. I'd like to say he no longer affected me, that seeing him was a disappointment. But it wasn't true. I felt as strongly about him as I had on that first day I'd seen him in calculus class.

Candace Bushnell

#35. Last period of the day was new gym class. It was her only class that didn't include Evan, which was a relief. She should be functioning at a peak concentration, but he and his luminous eyes kept distracting her. First opprtunity I have, she thought. I'll bite him.

Sarah Beth Durst

#36. I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Wendy Liebman