Primary School Quotes

• In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.

  Osman Baydemir

  Friday, School, Creating

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• My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

  Paul O'Grady

  Teacher, School, Shoes

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2011.

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• Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

  Carol Bellamy

  Education, Children, War

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• I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

  Aphex Twin

  School, Hair, Feelings

  "Eponymous Rex". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. April 15, 1997.

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• I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.

  Emma Watson

  Girlfriend, School, Two

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jan 09, 2013

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• schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.

  Bell Hooks

  School, Elude Us, How To Love

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, School, Play

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• In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

  Catherine Jinks

  School, Bored, Australian

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• My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.

  Leona Lewis

  School, People, Gigs

  "Is Leona Lewis too sweet to be a star?" by Liz Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 1, 2008.

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• I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

  Robert Winston

  Teacher, School, Butterfly

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• When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.

  Maisie Williams

  Fun, School, Boys

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• I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Book, School

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• I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

  Sydney Brenner

  School, Years, Two

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• I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

  Nick Clegg

  Dad, Children, School

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• I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

  Sally Hawkins

  School, Play, People

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• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  School, People, Democracy

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2009). “Democracy in America: Volumes I & II”, p.127, The Floating Press

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• It was quite tough, not many opportunities.
  I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."

  John Ilhan

  Inspirational, Teacher, Business

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• I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

  Jose Saramago

  Mistake, School, Writing

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• I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my lean towards art is Mr. Luigi St. Omer. Mr. St. Omer was the one who always reminded me that I should not settle for less than greatness in my art. He saw that I had the potential and he helped me develop that talent.

  St. Lucia

  Teacher, Encouragement, Art

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

  James Frecheville

  School, Years, Play

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• At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.

  Lily Collins

  Running, Children, School

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• I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.

  Lennox Lewis

  Children, Attitude, School

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• In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, School

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• Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

  Robert Winston

  School, People, Work Out

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