Student Quotes
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At first I had great expectations, and even if I didn’t say so clearly to myself I was glad to be there with Gigliola Spagnuolo rather than with Lila. In some very secret part of myself I looked forward to a school where she would never enter, where, in her absence, I would be the best student, and which I would sometimes tell her about, boasting. But immediately I began to falter, many of the others proved to be better than me. I ended up with Gigliola in a kind.
Elena Ferrante
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I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
Nicholas Braun
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I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.
Steven Hill
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Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.
Barry W. Lynn
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The artist should always be the student.
Edgar Alwin Payne
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When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.
Saul David
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As a former student put it: “In a liberry it’s hard to avoid reading."
Bel Kaufman
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The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.
Nikolay Konstantinov
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I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
Scott Turow
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Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge. He was a student at St. Martins College.
Ben Aaronovitch
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I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
Etty Hillesum
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When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.
Evan Osnos