Quotes About Small Schools

#1. Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Jens Stoltenberg

#2. Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

Cornelia Funke

#3. Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

Graham Parker

#4. Sometimes 'Portlandia' can be pretty traditional. But the stuff I've always loved on 'SNL' has always been the weirdest stuff I've done. The stuff that went on at 10 to 1 in the morning.

Fred Armisen

#5. [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

#6. What ravaged my mind was the thought.

The thought of you.

Sreesha Divakaran

#7. When we removed your son, we replaced him with nothing!

Julius Malema

#8. We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.

Lisa Randall

#9. Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,

Dick Cheney

#10. Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after a while. Every now and then I'll say "dude" or I'll say "bro," and people will laugh.

Ben Schnetzer

#11. I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances.

Lena Dunham

#12. And, at the same time, we began to build schools that are all inside and no outside, all stone and no garden, all power and no humility, all hulking system and no small child, all gears and no flowers, all compulsion and no promise.

Anthony Esolen

#13. I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price since it's at least as effective in curing head and heart of what ails us.

Janet Macunovich

#14. One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Thomas Menino

#15. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Anonymous

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Kate Klise

#17. I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches.
I blot out cemetaries. I feed the people with stinging nettles. I resurrect madness. I thrust my naked sword between the ribs of the world. I murder the world!

Harry Crosby

#18. The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

Harold E. Varmus

#19. Widmerpool's face assumed a dramatic expression that made him look rather like a large fish moving swiftly through opaque water to devour a smaller one.

Anthony Powell

#20. I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

Bob McDonnell

#21. I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

Taslima Nasrin

#22. At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.

Deepika Padukone

#23. As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

James S. Coleman

#24. I didn't come out and roll from job to job - my first year was really tough. I had to work as a teaching assistant for an agency; I ran a pancake stall in Dulwich Market. I taught drama classes and ran my own workshops. I applied for every advert on Gumtree there possibly was.

Cush Jumbo

#25. The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to see more diversity. That's why whenever I'm asked to speak at middle and high schools I always say yes.

Philip Freelon

#26. In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

Ellen Gilchrist