#school

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#been #collected #comics #familiar #got

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#began #cause #front #had #happened

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#care #everyone #foster #i #me

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#athletic #especially #find #hard #high

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#best part #dorky #getting #high #high school

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#because #being #called #child #had

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #business #business school #corporations #i

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#going #good #indeed #marks #school

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#early #hard #i #learned #me

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father