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Grammar School Quotes

Tony Parsons quote: "Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy."
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. Tony Parsons
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system. John Hume
Hazel grew up - did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn't learn a thing in either place. Reform schools are supposed to teach viciousness and criminality but Hazel didn't pay enough attention. John Steinbeck
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. Anthony Holden
Paul Nurse quote: "At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary..."
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. Paul Nurse
What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else, when the result is to wind up so far behind? Philip Roth
Ozzy Osbourne quote: "All these polo-necked wankers from grammar schools were going..."
All these polo-necked wankers from grammar schools were going out and buying songs like Ozzy Osbourne
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. Ray Bradbury
If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century. Stephen King
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles... Martin Amis
Karl von Frisch quote: "I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of..."
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. Karl von Frisch
Mike Farrell quote: "I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar..."
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business. Mike Farrell
We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. Nigel Farage
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? Nigel Farage
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that. Bobby McFerrin

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