Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws — Moliere Copy Share Image
“~I am neither an author nor a writer. I am a storyteller with good grammar.~” — Darke Conteur Copy Share Image
“It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I unhinge.” — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer. — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools. — Hugh Gaitskell Copy Share Image
I don't have a comeback so I'm just going to correct your grammar and spelling. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar school,… — Shanice Williams Copy Share Image
“I felt mildly peculiar to be treasuring love letters for their grammar, but there was nothing else I could treasure them for.” — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in love with it… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
