Schooldays Quotes

#1. The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Harper Lee

#2. I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays
were over, I no longer belonged here. I had always been a stranger and, if I
stayed, I would become a stranger to myself as well.

Peter Ackroyd

#3. Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

Anne Frank

#4. She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

Margaret Mitchell

#5. Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

Robert Morley

#6. I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

Jack Dee

#7. I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.

Douglas Adams

#8. When people said schooldays were the best days of your life, I remember thinking: 'Tell me it's not true. This cannot be it.' I don't think my life has ever been that bad again. It hasn't always been easy but at least I have been free.

Anna Chancellor

#9. There had been romances in my schooldays
but all my friends had had those; we were forever sending each other Valentines, writing sonnets on the prefect's eyes ... This wasn't like that. It was a thing of the heart and the head and the body. A real, true thing, grown-up.

Sarah Waters

#10. No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

George Orwell

#11. My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

John Henry Carver

#12. Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

Tom Bodett

#13. She wanted to melt into the ground at that moment, just hot wax into a puddle and disappear through a sewer grate. His eyes. That look. No interest. Total humiliation

Mitch Albom

#14. I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

Salman Khan

#15. When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Ralph Ellison

#16. To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

Christopher Tunnard

#17. Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

Abraham Verghese

#18. When all else fails, there's always delusion.

Conan O'Brien

#19. Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

Rory McIlroy

#20. My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

Micky Dolenz

#21. So you say, like, 'Hey tree, fix Finn,' and the tree is like, 'Okay, shazam, done.

Elle Casey

#22. You kids today don't understand. You go into the stalls, and you sit on the toilets, and you read your comic books. But you never think about the brave cleaning supplies that gave their lives so you could have a safe place to do your business.

Beth Labonte

#23. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.

Edgar Degas