Elementary Quotes

282 quotes by 247 authors

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform… — Philip Zimbardo
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of… — Geoff Mulgan
My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of… — Christine Quinn
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story… — Christine Quinn
Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge… — Dag Hammarskjold
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the… — George Orwell
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual… — Albert Schweitzer
What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. — Barbara Kingsolver
I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her… — Richelle Mead
...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary… — James McBride
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are… — Barry Lopez
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even… — Banana Yoshimoto
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or… — Laura Esquivel
Christy: "My grandma made this. I've had it since elementary school." Todd: "I never knew that." Christy: "I never knew you left your towel on… — Robin Jones Gunn
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university… — Ambeth R. Ocampo
Avery worries about her, too, so Lissa's in good hands. Avery's pretty amazing." I gave him a scathing look. "Amazing? Do you like her or… — Richelle Mead
I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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