School Quote by Anonymous

“This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against life.”

— Martin Amis

“But the Beatles turned out to be one of the things you couldn’t avoid, like alcohol, or death.”

— Elif Batuman

“school wouldn’t help them fight the Germans.”

— Lauren Wolk

“I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.”

— Douglas Adams

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

— Ringo Starr

“How you’ve both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district.” Barbarism? That’s ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for…

— Suzanne Collins

“It was a war of reason against barbarism, supposedly, with the issues at stake on such a high plane that most of our feverish…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Without nukes there would have been no Beatles,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.”

— Gregory Benford

“School's okay. I mean, it's the usual oppressive regime of fascist dogma. But I'm surviving.”

— Lili Wilkinson

“Yes, for education. An actual education, not finishing school—they’re going to squeeze me into corsets and bully me into silence.”

— Mackenzi Lee

The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot…

— John Lennon