School Year Quotes

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

The roll out of a new car is always filled with great anticipation; it's almost like going back to school for a new school year.

I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

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.

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.

While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off.

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn't work that way. I'm not Julia Roberts, so I have to be flexible.

I did fine at school. Because of my acting work, I did miss all my mocks, which I was absolutely delighted about, and I spent about five months of my Leaving Cert year in Canada because I was doing 'Young Blades' there.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.

For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.