High School Opens

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

“No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work on high things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is not that the Englishman can’t feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)