English School Quotes
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English School Quotes & Sayings
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I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
— Anthony Horowitz
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
— Joseph Sobran
Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.
— Allan Dare Pearce
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
— Elizabeth Edwards
The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.
— John Grisham
In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
— Chris Pine
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
— Eric Allin Cornell
Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!
— Juan Manuel Fangio
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
— Mamata Banerjee
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
— Karl Lagerfeld
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
— Gore Vidal
In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
— Rabih Alameddine
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.
— Eiza Gonzalez
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
— Ian Harding
French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.
— Stephanie Perkins
I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.
— M T Anderson
Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
— Will Rogers
I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.
— Jemima West
I excelled in English while I was at school.
— Jamie Bell
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
— Joan Collins
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
— Tatiana Maslany
Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in school combined.
— Sneha Mehta
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
— Cornelia Funke
I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
— Kate Thompson
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
— Joe Strummer
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
— Mark Takano
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
— Craig Ferguson
I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.
— Ruby Bentall
I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
— Elizabeth George
I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.
— Nick Mancuso
I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
— Francisco Costa
I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.
— Pat Conroy
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
— Orlando Bloom
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
— Prince Royce
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
— Francine Prose
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
— Shirley Hufstedler