School Age Quotes

I work with elementary- and middle school-age girls.

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

Before I turned 18, I had all these rules. Like, I could only work ten hours a day, and I had to go to school.

Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

A lot of people in my class were one to two years older than me.

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

Education ought not to be extended beyond 14, until ... the labour market has adjusted itself to the new conditions.

I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.

Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.

All pupils of school age have the right to moral or religious education at the community’s expense.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of seven this relationship is reversed, the more intelligent schoolchildren sleeping more than the dull ones.

My mother looked after me full-time when I was young, but as soon as I started school, she got a job in an office.

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

I left school on my 15th birthday.