#school

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#dichotomy #english #front #gone #great

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#breaking #bush #children #education #education reform

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#calendar #club #cornell #covering #did

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#find #i #i do #little #moment

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. ↗

— Laura Linney

#always #book #con #i #instead

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long. ↗

— Laura Linney

#group #i #i feel #instinct #long

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be! ↗

— Blake Lively

#friends #girl #had #high #high school

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them. ↗

— Blake Lively

#crush #find #had #i #later

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane! ↗

— Bob Livingston

#by the time #champion #cotton #cotton fields #down

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

#ancient #attention #classical #could #day