School Retrieved August

Famous quotes containing the words school and/or august:

“You send a boy to school in order to make friends—the right sort.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)