Grammar School Quotes
30 quotes by 30 authors
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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 he gave to…
— Dave Brubeck
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I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an…
— John Hume
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In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a…
— Ron Carlson
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My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old. I did not…
— KAWS
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At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
— Paul Nurse
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
— Karl von Frisch
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Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
— Isaac Goldberg
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every…
— Edmund Hillary
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I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
— Tony Orlando
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There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so…
— Julie Walters
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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics…
— Terry Eagleton
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There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.
— Toby Young
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Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar…
— Nina Bawden
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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 that swashbuckling and…
— Beverly Cleary
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Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did…
— Steve Coogan
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Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life…
— Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was…
— Steve Earle
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In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness…
— Whitney Houston
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Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
— Jennifer Hudson
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I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much…
— Helen Mirren
Who Wrote These Grammar School Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 30 Grammar School Quotes, led by these top contributors: