First Day Of School Quotes

First Day Of School Quotes by Sean Maher, Lauren Barnholdt, Victor Hugo, George Santayana, Sarah Michelle Gellar, George Bernard Shaw and many others.

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it’s always scary. It’s like the first day of school.
Sean Maher
The first day of school is bullshit
Lauren Barnholdt
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I’ve traveled and I’ve seen it, and I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter. I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Honestly, television is what offers me that.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together––blah, blah, I didn’t really listen to teh details––and Drew had been just as much a tyrant there. ~Sadie Kane, about Lacy and Drew of Aphrodite cabin.
Rick Riordan
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson
You can get all A’s and still flunk life.
Walker Percy
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Leigh Steinberg
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.
George H. W. Bush
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph Washington Sockman
First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.
Jordan Francis