Quotes About Homework

#1. This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."
I frowned, "What's that?"
"Homework.

Richelle Mead

#2. I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

Irwin M. Jacobs

#3. Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

Katherine Applegate

#4. Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus - woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love.

Molly Ringle

#5. A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

Alice Miller

#6. Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.

Joe Mantegna

#7. College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep ... but you can only choose two.

Andy Stern

#8. My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

Daymond John

#9. I don't strive for balance. I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids' homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the next audition or whatever scene I'm shooting next. Balance.

Adina Porter

#10. I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

Rory McIlroy

#11. I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

Yvonne Strahovski

#13. There was a shared sigh as the boys ran off behind Radley, thanking God for not killing them, and telling him how they'd be better people and do their homework from now on.

Joseph Eastwood

#14. Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

Christopher Paolini

#15. I didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Carl Crawford

#17. Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night.

Kevin Leman

#18. Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Peter Drucker

#19. Everyone is always learning something new," my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?

Marjorie Agosin

#20. You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Meredith Whitney

#21. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

#22. Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework.

Mel Brooks

#23. I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.

Tom Hardy

#24. Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

Bono

#25. Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

Justin Hires

#26. Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

Sal Albanese

#27. A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

Charles Duhigg

#28. When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

Jerry Spinelli

#29. Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.

Maria Bartiromo

#30. My parents to this day are unable to comprehend anything about my profession," Sophia sighed, "in fact, they stopped helping me with my homework the minute I hit the fifth grade. But they had wisdom that I could not find in books, and as powerful as I am... I can't hug myself when I am at my lowest.

Kipjo Kenyatta Ewers

#31. I'll fix your toes, he said, as plainly as if he'd told me to do my homework. He dropped onto his knees in front of me, then stopped, tilting his head as if trying to figure out where to put himself.

C.L.Stone

#32. I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#33. Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.

Cheyenne Jackson

#34. We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

Lorraine Toussaint

#35. I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I'm terrible at maths. I can't even do my six-year-old's maths homework with her.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#36. There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#37. For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework.

Greg Pincus

#38. I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Constance Baker Motley

#39. I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Bil Keane

#40. A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

Tony Scott

#41. If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

Mamie Gummer

#42. The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

Imran Khan

#43. Johnny: "Would you punish me for something I didn't do? " Teacher: "No, of course not. " Johnny: "Good, because I didn't do my homework." ***

Various

#44. Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

John Lutz

#45. Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.

Ronald Frame

#46. Cool," I said. "You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.

Richelle Mead

#47. If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.

Colin Angle

#48. I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

Jessica Hagedorn

#49. The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

Lily Rabe

#50. Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.

Natalie Maines

#51. I understand how hard it is to force yourself to be someone different. By the end of high school, I had taken to doing my math homework up against a concealed wall during lunch because I was tired of socializing.

Andrea Seigel

#52. Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life, Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.

J.K. Rowling

#53. I'd like to see twenty-one links completed when I return. Threats on your well-being are poor excuses for missing homework!

He drew a happy face after that - two dots and a curving line - and signed his name.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#54. It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person. They're too busy thinking about Big Ideas to worry about little details like tying their shoes or remembering their homework" -Fella

Sarah Dooley

#55. When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Bill Gates

#56. Be very focused. Do your homework so your research and claims are unassailable. Make sure it is bulletproof and then make sure you are really focused. The thing I find is that the issues are usually so large that you try to cover a lot of ground. That's a natural impulse.

Amy Ziering

#57. Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.

Mark Cuban

#58. High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that's before the truckload of homework.

Taylor Gaskins

#59. Good literacy skills can help children:

-Be healthy and safe.
-Do their homework to their best ability.
-Get and keep a job one day.
-Eventually participate in local committees or government

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#60. I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is
the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

John Green

#61. The demon did it" excuse, while more creative than "the dog ate my homework," was still as unbelievable. And much more likely to get me sent to the psyche ward.

A&E Kirk

#62. You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

John F. Kerry

#63. In the police's defense, the Riot aren't wearing their cuts, but I'm disappointed. The Riot watching the store are big names and we know them by face and road name in order to stay safe. I'd think the police would have done their homework, especially with Violet's life on the line.

Katie McGarry

#64. The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

Jennifer Weiner

#65. Ishy, you got any homework?"
"If it's fractions, I'll help you," Sam said.
"Hen still doesn't know how to do fractions."
"I have spelling words I have to mesmerize," Ishmael said
"Those words will never know what hit them" Sam said.

Nick Wilgus

#66. It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.

Marcia Gay Harden

#67. Teacher: Where is your homework? Student: I didn't do it because I didn't want to add to your already heavy workload.

Various

#68. Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!

Drew Carey

#69. They stood either side of him like haunting little genetic bookends. The one thing he'll leave behind, two kids who called another man for help with their homework.

David Louden

#70. Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework
an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Betty Friedan

#71. What's that?"
"Jane!" Gansey said joyfully.
Adam said, "It's a wizard in a box."
"It will do your homework," Noah added.
"And it's been dating your girlfriend," Ronan finished.
Blue scowled. "Are you all drunk?

Maggie Stiefvater

#72. I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.

Drew Barrymore

#73. it's like I have two kinds of students now. Kids who write their homework and thought papers on their phones. Kids who just sound like they do.

James Browning

#74. The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

Cynthia Lewis

#75. When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.

Alan Furst

#76. It's just snow," Lesa said, rolling her eyes. "It's not going to hurt you."
Kimmy smoothed her hands over her blond hair. "Sugar melts."
"Yeah, and shit floats." Lesa took her seat, yanking out last night's English homework.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#77. The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

Jules Shear

#78. It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.

Donna Shalala

#79. Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.

Daniel Alarcon

#80. You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple of good takes, and then you move on, so you have to be very spontaneous as an actor and have done your homework, and I like that.

Barry Bostwick

#81. The art of writing is the same as the art of convincing a teacher that you really did do your homework or you studied something that you didn't. It's the art of lying convincingly and it's amazing how much you can learn from a little.

Neil Gaiman

#82. [Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

Helmut Schmidt

#83. I live in a world where school is in a precarious balance with social life, parties, and sports games. He lives in a world where school is all-consuming, and when his homework isn't, Star Wars and video games are.

Selena Brooks

#84. I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

Emily Mortimer

#85. The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry.

Magnus Carlsen

#86. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future.

Malala Yousafzai

#87. As a teenager, I always intended to do my homework. But when the supplicant dead come to you for justice and you also have occasional prophetic dreams, life tends to interfere with your studies.

Dean Koontz

#88. We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

Candace Cameron Bure

#89. Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died? said Ron, who was halfway through his Potions homework and grumpy.

J.K. Rowling

#90. Books, Perry, books! The backbone of civilization. And our homework." I

Karina Halle

#91. They never fought. I mean it: they never fought. In the evening, she did her sewing and he read his paper and we did our homework and we had what the Israelis call shalom bait, peace in the home.

Edith Hahn Beer

#92. No homework. I got suspended," Blue replied.
"Get the fuck out," Ronan said, but with admiration. "Sargent, you asshole.

Maggie Stiefvater

#93. Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

Rod Steiger

#94. I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.

Shaun White

#95. To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

Demetri Martin

#96. I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

Gordon Clark

#97. I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

Harvey Weinstein

#98. If the subject of Lon's cock had been a high school subject, then he'd have been a star pupil. His notebooks would've been filled with writing, and his homework completed every single night.

Renae Kaye

#99. Are you about done yet?Because this is all very impressive,but it's a school night and I've got homework to get back to.

Kiersten White

#100. I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff ... Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

Jane Espenson