#school

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. ↗

— Larry Elder

#age #before #child #finish #formula

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#became #because #become #card #catalog

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#characters #deal #had #happening #haven

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#doing #fact #focus #high #high school

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#did #high #high school #i #knew

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#andrew #attended #born #boy #i

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#i #learn #needed #school #started

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#balance #balances #branches #check #checking

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#dancing #fencing #law #law school #merit