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“My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.”
Jim Thome
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
Muhammad Ali
“They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.”
Richard Yates
“The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.”
Mark Twain
“We learn not in the school, but in life”
Seneca
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
Neil Gaiman
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo
“High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.”
John Mayer
“Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.”
Mae West
“I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school”
Ashleigh Brilliant