#homework

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#breaking-down-assignment #childhood #encouragement #homework #project

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#attention #else #everybody #everybody else #got

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#every #every night #having #homework #life

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework. ↗

— Bil Keane

#cartoonists #day #doing #draw #homework

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework. ↗

— John Knowles

#back #both #desks #doing #earlier

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole. ↗

— Kiersten White

#funny #homework #funny

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#comic #comic books #emphasis #family #games

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#acting #done #fifties #getting #homework

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#acting #away #backside #below #belt

I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.' ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#ask #call #god #grade #hand