First Day Of School Quotes

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

I stay dipped like the first day of school.

The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter. I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Honestly, television is what offers me that.

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said... "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

The first day of school is bullshit

Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet. Well?" I asked him. He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together––blah, blah, I didn't really listen to teh details––and Drew had been just as much a tyrant there. ~Sadie Kane, about Lacy and Drew of Aphrodite cabin.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

Education is our passport to the future.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.