Quotes About Moving Schools

#1. There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.

Jennifer Ehle

#2. Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

Marcia Gay Harden

#3. During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.

Richard Preston

#4. [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move ...

Olive Schreiner

#5. He had referred to blurbs as the blood diamonds of publishing.

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.

Raj Chetty

#7. I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch TV.

Jimmy Bennett

#8. If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

Lee L Jampolsky

#10. I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition.

Paul Blanshard

#11. Luckily, I have great agents who are sending me out for great stuff.

Stephanie Beatriz

#12. Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

Anita Roddick

#13. There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.

James Avery

#14. Say ye love me.Even if its not true, let me keep th' words.
-Nate to Bertie
Tell me you love me, at least as much as you love him.
-Ariel to Bertie

Lisa Mantchev

#15. She felt like something had shifted between them but wasn't sure what.

Katie Reus

#16. 'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart

#17. Man is neither angel nor beast, and it is unfortunately the case that anyone trying to act the angel acts the beast.

Blaise Pascal

#18. The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task..

Guy Claxton

#19. I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.

Debby Ryan

#20. The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

Benjamin Harrison

#21. Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.

Johnny Hunt

#22. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

Acharya Mahapragya