“So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.” PlaySchoolOrderStageNew YorkDramaSummerCapacityProductionsLooking For Work Author:Linda Lavin
“If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.” IfsWholeSchoolMotherSonSummerIf I CouldMy SonCampsSummer Camp Author:Nate Mendel
“I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.” YearsSchoolBornCenturyPaperSummerRaisedSevenVariousStudiosSellingDepartmentVacationFoxes20th CenturyPapersSeven YearsBorn And RaisedTimerSummer VacationOld Timers Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.” YearsWellsMayWholeSchoolValuesWeekSummerConvictionOrganizedCampsFormalSummer CampWhole YearSchool Work Author:Charles William Eliot
“At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.” AgeSchoolTenLateSummerClothesConceptsPoundsCandySearsLate Summer Book:Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America Source: Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.” FirstsKidsAgeSchoolBeautifulGirlThreeVoiceVisionBoysGrowingMagicMiddleSummerShotsSkinsMiracleTeethContactFixedBreastsFlawsTallInchesLensesEmergingDoveCrookedMiddle SchoolBracesBlurryContact LensesCrooked Teeth Book:The Age of Miracles Source: The Age of Miracles
“In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.” WayFeelsYearsKidsSchoolDogSummerSeptemberDog DaysSchool Work Author:Brené Brown
“I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.” YearsSchoolBornSummerEnglandRaisedNigeriaSwitzerlandBorn And RaisedSummer School Author:Toks Olagundoye
“I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.” FirstsWellsSchoolAmericaMomOne DaySummerSouthMy MomGradesStayingVacationSouth AfricaComing BackNorth AmericaSlippingSummer Vacation Author:Kandyse McClure
“I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.” PeopleKnowsSchoolRememberHouseRoomsStudentsMetsSummerHigh SchoolDirtyFraternity Author:Spencer Grammer
“I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.” LittlesHomeKidsWantedSchoolComedyDramaDirectorsSummerHigh SchoolSpendingCaliforniaNeighborhoodTwelveFifteenCousinSixteen Author:Steven Spielberg
“I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.” IfsWould BeSchoolRichTeacherTenSummerHolidayMore TimeWeekendTime OffSchool Teachers Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.” IfsWantPlaySchoolSummerHigh SchoolTheaterLocalsCampsMichigan Author:James Wolk
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” LongSchoolWeekSummerHappeningsCollectionsPausesStretching Author:Sarah Dessen