High School Opens

Famous quotes containing the words high, school and/or opens:

    “The destiny of the whole race is comprised in four things: Religion, education, morals, politics. Woman is a religious being; she is becoming educated; she has a high code of morals; she will yet purify politics.”
    —Zerelda G. Wallace (1817–1901)

    “After school days are over, the girls ... find no natural connection between their school life and the new one on which they enter, and are apt to be aimless, if not listless, needing external stimulus, and finding it only prepared for them, it may be, in some form of social excitement. ...girls after leaving school need intellectual interests, well regulated and not encroaching on home duties.”
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    “I can smell
    the blade that opens the hole
    and the pudgy white fingers

    that shake out the intestines
    like a hankie.”
    —Philip Levine (b. 1928)