Schoolmates Quotes:

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

- Scott Westerfeld

topic: Home, Jail, People, Schoolmates

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

- Evelyn Glennie

topic: Interesting, Lessons, Percussion, Schoolmates

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

- Emo Philips

topic: Love, Funny, Limits, Classmates, Schoolmates

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Bullying, Boys, Long, Schoolmates

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

- Corrie Ten Boom

source: Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”

topic: Prayer, School, Ideas, Dispelling, Overcoming Fear

I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Running, Hurt, Laughter, Empty Houses, Schoolmates

Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.

- Michael Specter

source: Source: www.newyorker.com

topic: New York, Children, School, Vaccinations, Schoolmates

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

- John Lewis

source: "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

topic: Teacher, America, Today, America Today, Schoolmates

Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Writing, Echoes, News Stories, Schoolmates

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

- J. R. Moehringer

topic: Italian, Yankees, Rich Or Poor, Gaelic, Schoolmates

I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.

- David Wenham

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

topic: Writing, Names, Voice, Puppet Shows, Schoolmates