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Attending Quotes

On showing up - for school, family, and tradition.

This collection looks at what it means to attend - showing up for school, for family customs, and for responsibilities passed down through generations. Several lines touch on education access, including the real barriers some students still face.

The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and...

Quotes by Yolanda Adams

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge...

Quotes by W. G. Sebald

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even...

Quotes by Tina Brown

Day Quotes

I lived at home while attending the University of Western Australia in Perth, while doing a gap year and - partly - while attending the Academy of Performing Arts on the other side of town.

Quotes by Tim Minchin

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time.

Quotes by Theresa Rebeck

Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Dhani Jones was so moved by 'An Inconvenient Truth' that he spent three days of his summer break attending Gore's grassroots tutorial. Now, Jones can present the movie's lecture and corresponding slide show on his own.

Quotes by Suzy Shuster

From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to...

Quotes by Steven Rattner

Good Quotes

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

Quotes by Stephen Cole Kleene

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

Quotes by Simon McBurney

My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award.

Quotes by Sharon Lawrence

Shopping malls across the county are dying fast, and my images of them are very nostalgic for most people that grew up attending these malls. These malls were communal spaces. These were gigantic chat rooms before the Internet existed. You...

Quotes by Seph Lawless

I never thought that I would co-host something at TED. I've been attending TED conferences since 2009, so I've been in the audience for many, many years, enjoying the very hard work of the TEDsters.

Quotes by Sara Ramirez

Great Quotes

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.

Quotes by Ryan White

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

Quotes by Roy Harper

We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school,...

Quotes by Ronny Chieng

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

Quotes by Robert Fripp

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Quotes by Robert Burton

Life Quotes

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't...

Quotes by Rick Perry

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Attending quotes collection cover?
It brings together lines about showing up - for school, family duty, and inherited customs - across very different settings.
Why do people look up quotes about attending school?
Education access is a recurring concern, and readers often want words that speak to the value of getting to attend school in the first place.
Does this collection touch on cultural tradition?
Yes, some quotes reflect on obligations passed down through generations, like caring for family in ways rooted in long-held customs.
Are these quotes tied to any single setting?
No - they range from university life to grade-school statistics to older village traditions.
What related collections should I check next?
The Life collection offers more general reflections that pair well with these themes.

For more on daily commitments, see our Day collection, or continue reading broader reflections in Life quotes.