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school hard-work church
Alan Paton But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
school age taught
Alan Moore I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
school opportunity thinking
Alan Moore I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
Alan Bennett I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
school boys oxford
Alan Bennett My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
Alan Ball I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
school exercise keys
Alan Alda Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
school thinking lasts
Alan Alda When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
age way young
Charles Dickens I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
age church body
Charles Caleb Colton We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.
age waste excess
Charles Caleb Colton The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
age matter fairytale
Charles Dickens In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
age pay time-is-money
Charles Stross I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.
age amusement serious
Charles Spurgeon Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!
agents very-good turns
Alan Rickman I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
age towns my-family
Alan Jackson Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
age golden golden-rule
Alan Alda Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
taught lord teach
Charles Spurgeon Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.
taught-us common-sense culture
Alan Watts The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
taught expect-nothing endeavor
Alan Paton Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
taught-us action oppression
Audre Lorde If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
taught baha young
Cass McCombs When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.
taught-us people swim
Carlos Mencia I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.
taught forgotten knows
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.
taught-us parent hopeful
Bryan Stevenson My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.
taught caught rhythm
Elizabeth Barrett Browning I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.