Schoolkid Quotes & Sayings

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all. — Richard Ford

Our reason is our law. — John Milton

If you get tired learn to rest, not to quit. — Banksy

An Engineer rounds numbers based on the system behaviour and a Mathematician or a Schoolkid does it based on a pedagogical rule. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

The greatest danger for most of us in not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and reach it. — Michaelangelo

Marain, the Culture's quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other sentient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there are ways of specifying a person's sex in Marain, but they're not used in everyday conversation; in — Iain M. Banks

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite. — Nelson Eddy

She holds every dress briefly by its shoulders like it's a schoolkid she's checking out for smudges before church. Then one by one they get flung away from her and into the fire. — Mary Karr

Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up. — Brian Tracy

When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place! — Jamie Oliver

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him. — Allan Bloom