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“Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.”

School Fall United Known Unity Divided United We Stand

Author:Aesop

Book:The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...

Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...

“When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.”

Way School Girl Other Girl

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.”

World Feels School America Born Citizens England Belgium Switzerland

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”

School Results Education Accepting Teaching Evidence Built Institutions Contrary Despite Overwhelming Axioms

Book:The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.”

Ifs Art School Doubt New York Available Excellent Art School

Author:Howard Pyle

“I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.”

Kids School Special Lessons Band Normal Program Friday Public School School Band

Author:Kenny G

“Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.”

Has Beens School Mother Difficulty Invention Facility

Book:Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

“Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.”

Knows Art Age School Girl Boys Ought Reflection Printing School Girl

Author:Horace Mann

“A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.”

Want School Pay Race Criticism Blind Faults Slave Mere Ancient Obedience Merit Greece Bigots Blind Obedience

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.”

School Subjects Favourite Unnecessary Avoiding

Author:Prince Philip

“Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.”

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.”

Art Important School Form White Quality Movement Reflection Window Works Of Art Curtains Great Work Lace

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.”

Littles School Passion Missing Balls Dancing Triumph Enjoyment Resolution Assembly Eloquence Doubted Gowns Orators Splendour

Author:David Hume

“Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.”

Way Humans School Order Language Movement Return Foundation Innocence Liberation Revolutionary Poetry Is Renewal Surrealism Pact

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.”

Home Kids School Sky Son Drawing Diamond Lucy Lsd

Author:Paul McCartney

“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.”

Knows Years Humans Ends School Winning Ability Education Study Figures Students Prize Copies

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.”

Ifs Thinking Looks School Drawing

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.”

Problem Home School Young Mother Father Left Health Picks Nervous Whooping Cough

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?”

Knows Mean Doe Art States Body Kids School Cutting Program Iraq Conservative Compassionate Refuge Wildlife Armor Arctic After School Drilling After School Programs

Author:John F. Kerry

“Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.”

“A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.”

Men School Behinds Style Speech Careful Accepted Mask Modesty Public School Conceit Boyhood Understatement Old English

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?”

School Tradition Endless Bunch Formulas Honored Juice Tobacco Dreary Carrots Banality

Author:Paul Cezanne

“At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.”

Thinking School Artist New York Patriotism Future Time

Book:Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

Source: Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.”

School Childhood Confusion Resolve Repression

Book:Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

Source: Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

“School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.”

Facts School Compare Drudgery

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.”

School Christian Christianity Lord Principles Eight Convinced Desert Bombs Bullets Grandchildren Adversaries Demonstration

Author:Oliver North

“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.”

Years Children Stills Ends School White Written Pages Research Paint Frustration Forty Bangs Slap Mania Malady Forty Years Old

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.”

Ifs Should Done School Succeed Ideals Workers Technique Crafts Idealism Skilled Workers

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.”

Knows Different Kids School Form Awareness High School Raised Bullying Loser Bullied Being Bullied Anti Bullying Bullying Inspirational Inspirational Bullying

Author:Lady Gaga

“I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.”

Art Two School Acting Teacher Teaching Meditating Art Teacher

Author:Forest Whitaker

“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.”

Men Art Reality School Understanding White Struggle Seeing England Indian Formal White Man Starks Pierce Schooled Baffled Stark Reality

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.”

Age School Views Common Issues Intellectual Agree Foundation Filled Determined Accepted Atmosphere Discussion Opposing Unspoken

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years, when things were tough, but my dad always had a job. But I had a great time. I was kind of restless, and I had a hard time staying in school all day, so me and a few pals would duck out and go out on these various adventures.”

Years Kind Hard School Jobs Wonderful Childhood Adventure Dad Tough My Dad Various Hard Times Staying Ducks Restless Great Times Boyhood Pals Had A Great Time Wonderful Times Stay In School

Author:James Arness

“The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.”

Wells Hard School Cases Sick Edges Nervous Paris Breakdown Frail Nervous Breakdown School Experience

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.”

Ideas School Culture Company Creativity Fashion Solitude Achievement Gregarious Groupthink

Author:Susan Cain

“I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.”

Writing School Film High School Originals Scripts Titles Devices Killers Insects Bugs Surveillance Thrillers

Author:Wes Craven

“I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].”

Ifs School Education Boys Draws Not Sure Bad Things

Author:William Merritt Chase

“I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.”

People School Fun Sense Of Humor Clown Vindictive

Author:Jim Dale

“With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some peace of mind when they send their children off to school in the morning, .. Since children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment.”

“I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.”

Want Running School Jobs Three Parent Decided Pursue

Author:Lady Gaga

“School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice.”

Way Believe Children Hard School Choices Hard Work Our Children Strongest Educate Going To Work School Choice

Author:Ari Fleischer

“If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.”

Ifs Children School Parent Childhood Serious Congress Nutrition Improving Chips Obesity Epidemics Child Obesity Childhood Obesity Obesity Epidemic

Author:Tom Harkin

“I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.”

School Too Much Sweet Healthy Pressure Bans Healthy Food

Author:Boris Johnson

“I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.”

States School Process Levels United United States College Basketball High School Selection Parting

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.”

Needs Giving Able School Asks Individual Strong Parent Decision Teacher Design Students Program Partnership Permission Bureaucracy Flexibility Public School Charter School Teachers

Author:Gary Larson

“My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.”

Looks School Teacher Son Genius Paint Painter Apples My Son

Author:Charles Mingus

“I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take to address the digital divide as it affects local children, and provide a range of opportunities for ICT suppliers, government agencies, charities and other organisations to make a contribution.”

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