School Punishment Quotes

#1. The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.

Frank Muir

#2. Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

Allan Dare Pearce

#3. Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.

Rob Thomas

#4. All I had was a CD with beats. I wrote to every beat on that CD, and when I got off punishment, I put out my first mixtape. I passed it out all around school. I started going to the studio. I started doing shows.

Dreezy

#5. The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions.

Hal Elrod

#6. The threat of punishment at home or school only served as a challenge to figure out how to circumvent the consequences when I did what I wanted to do anyway. I didn't fear the punishment, I just saw it as an inconvenience to work around.

M.E. Thomas

#7. Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?

Elena Ferrante

#8. Dear teachers, please make reading and writing fun. Reading and writing shouldn't be a punishment while in school. I ask you to create and teach two electives: "Reading for Pleasure" and "Writing for Pleasure".

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#9. Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

Michel Foucault

#11. Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

Adam Smith

#12. A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.

Joel Kinnaman

#13. Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

Alfie Kohn

#15. Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home - everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment - masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from ourselves.

CrimethInc.

#16. They bided their time. They agreed: They would do it the first day of school, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in order to "intensify Mayor Sokolich's punishment.

Anonymous

#17. We never get so mad as when we get caught, do we?

Stephen King

#18. If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?

Edward M. Wolfe

#19. Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Oscar Wilde

#20. My group has to do the Eighth Amendment, which is the one about cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not sure why group work isn't counted in that amendment.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#21. Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness:
Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.

Everett Ruess

#22. The light and the stars guide my way.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love ...

Ottessa Moshfegh

#24. I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

David E. Hoffman

#25. I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

Sam Riley

#26. Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see ... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school ... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege ... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

Charles M. Schulz