School Grounds Quotes

#1. Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Richard Louv

#2. As I stomped across the school grounds, all I could see was Cal sitting with my dad in some manly room with leather chairs and dead animals on the wall, chomping on cigars as my dad formally signed me away to him. They probably even high-fived.

Rachel Hawkins

#3. Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.

Aaron Swartz

#4. Yes, exactly. I heard he's a sort of savage - lives in a hut on the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic, and ends up setting fire to his bed." "I think he's brilliant," said Harry coldly.

J.K. Rowling

#5. I have this condition I call impromptu senility. I can't remember a damn thing when I don't want to.

Laurann Dohner

#6. I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.

M T Anderson

#7. How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it.

Francoise Mallet-Joris

#9. A writer's brush is a warrior's bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The calligrapher is an archer, or a general on a battlefield. Someone wrote that long ago. She feels that way this morning. She is at war.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#10. I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

Spike Lee

#11. If I wanted a comeback, I'd ask you to spit.

M. Robinson

#12. After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

Horace Mann

#13. Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.

Jim Butcher