School Cafeteria Quotes:

Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. ...Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Children, School, Kids, Child Obesity, Healthy Food

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

- Temple Grandin

topic: Baseball, Children, School, Meltdowns, Lack Of Empathy

Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my camp necklace. It had a bead for every summer I'd been at Camp Half-Blood, but since last year I'd also kept a sand dollar on the cord. My father had given it to me for my fifteenth birthday. He'd told me I would know when to "spend it," but so far I hadn't figured out what he meant. All I knew that it didn't fit the vending machines in the school cafeteria.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Summer, Father, School, Cafeteria, Last Summer

So we stand there, part of a crowd a thousand people strong, beaming up at the sky with wonder. I knew with a sudden certainty that wherever I am in the future - up in my treehouse, alone in the school cafeteria, or trying to figure out what my teachers are talking about, a part of me will always be right here, right now, wish that giant eye in the sky shining down on me, telling me it's going to be alright.

- Wendy Mass

topic: Teacher, Strong, School, Cafeteria, School Cafeteria

I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.30, Harper Collins

topic: School, Holiday, Knowing, Family Holiday, Tipsy

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

- Dave Barry

topic: Humorous, School, World, Cafeteria, Airline Food

It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.

- Michael Thomas Ford

topic: Sweet, School, Holiday, Really Sweet, Pez

Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

- Dave Barry

source: "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

topic: Food, School, Years, Connoisseur, Cafeteria

I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.

- Tommy Shaw

topic: Cafeteria, Junior High, Auditoriums, School Cafeteria

I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.

- Jenny Lawson

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Mother, Self Esteem, Book, Cafeteria, Flashlights