After School Quotes

• I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great?

  Joel McHale

  Halloween, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

  Cameron Diaz

  Fathers Day, Dad, School

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• Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

  Matt Gonzalez

  School, Kids, Opportunity

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• I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

  Elle Fanning

  School, Hip Hop, Ballet

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• For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Teacher, Smart, School

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• Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Real

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.377, A&C Black

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• So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.

  Robert Barry

  School, College, Trouble

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

  Sara Paxton

  Growing Up, School, Acting

  "Sara Paxton on The Innkeepers, Shark Night 3-D and Julia Roberts Marathons". Interview with Julie Miller, movieline.com. June 23, 2011.

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• When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it. Every day before that an evening with you was waiting for me after school, now no more, strange feeling. I had grown too accustomed to your warmth. That is also a danger. At home I looked at the notebooks that you had bought and I got the stupidest surge of hope that I'd find something of you, something especially for meant for me. I would so much like to have something of you that I could always keep by me, that nobody else would notice.

  Sophie Scholl

  Notebook, School, Home

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• What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.

  Truman Capote

  Baby, Morning, Wall

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

  Marisha Pessl

  Children, Father, School

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.94, Penguin

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• I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beach, Children, School

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.300, Orb Books

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• I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Hate, Book

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• I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

  Barbra Streisand

  School, Blue, Years

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• I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

  Amy Sedaris

  Girl, Summer, Senior

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2004.

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• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Reading, School, Kids

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• So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, School, Weekend

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• After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

  Tony Campolo

  School, Government, Elderly

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

  Quincy Jones

  School, Forever, Different

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

  John Legend

  Football, Athlete, School

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• At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

  Joyce Meyer

  Sports, Lonely, Party

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• My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Teacher, Father, School

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• When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.

  Heather Headley

  Growing Up, Father, School

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