School Starts Too Early Quotes

#1. Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

Daniel Keyes

#2. Bad bananas are like push-up bras
a promise of tenderness can deliver tasteless mush, and we're not supposed to complain.

Kate Lebo

#3. Hell, when I was in high school, a drive-by shooting meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window!

Jeff Foxworthy

#4. More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. Self-pity is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

Renata Adler

#6. In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless.

Robert E. Howard

#7. The boys from Staten Island would fill more body bags than Stuyvesant could ever imagine. Mechanics and plumbers had to fight while college students shook indignant fists, fornicated in the fields of Woodstock and sat in.

Frank McCourt

#8. The sun fades like the spreading
Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight
Might be read as a warning to those desperate
For easy solutions.

John Ashbery

#9. In this day ... community has come to mean less a geographic neighborhood than a broader, sketchier network of colleagues and kindred spirits.

Leah Hager Cohen

#10. Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

Amy Carmichael

#11. Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Horace