English School Quotes
Early lessons in belonging and grit.
These English school quotes trace how early feelings of not belonging shaped later resilience and pride, alongside memories of sports and competitive races won by a wide margin. For more on identity formed early in life, see William Watson quotes.
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm...
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I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set...
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.
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School discipline also gets a mention as a formative, sometimes difficult influence beyond the classroom itself. Visit Homemaker quotes for more on upbringing and formative environments.
