Separate School Boards

Famous quotes containing the words school boards, separate, school and/or boards:

    “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “As a father I had some trouble finding the words to separate the person from the deed. Usually, when one of my sons broke the rules or a window, I was too angry to speak calmly and objectively. My own solution was to express my feelings, but in an exaggerated, humorous way: “You do that again and you will be grounded so long they will call you Rip Van Winkle II,” or “If I hear that word again, I’m going to braid your tongue.””
    —David Elkind (20th century)

    “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)

    “These doorsteps seldom have a visitor.
    The warping boards pull out their own old nails
    With none to tread and put them in their place.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)