Back to School One Liners

Huge list of some great quotes from your favorite people, movies, and shows.

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List of quotes to use from shows and movies

I love coming up with cheesy quotes from shows and movies to put in cards and emails. Life goes so quick but it is still a good idea to put together a nice quotes list. Here are some Back to School One Liners items I have now:

  • On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, ‘I hope you all like where you’re sitting, because these are your permanent seats.
  • To raise a child who is comfortable enough to leave you means you’ve done your job. They are not ours to keep, but to teach how to soar on their own.
  • Now when you get there, act like somebody.
  • You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
  • What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
  • Math Teacher: "If I have 5 bottles in one hand and 6 in the other hand, what do I have?" Student: "A drinking problem."
  • Intelligence plus character—that is the true goal of education.
  • The highest result of education is tolerance.
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
  • I would enjoy school more if I was allowed to bring a pillow.
  • Did you hear about the kidnapping at school? It's okay. He woke up.
  • Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
  • School is the easiest job you’ll ever have.
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
  • Respect your parents. They passed school without Google.
  • First day of school! Wake up! Come on. First day of school.
  • It’s not that I hate school. I just hate waking up early in the morning.
  • Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
  • There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
  • All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
  • If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
  • I hate jokes about prom. The punch line is always too long.
  • The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
  • On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college.
  • A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new challenges. The slate is clean and anything can happen.
  • Education is the difference between wishing you could help other people and being able to help them.
  • Be kind and make friends.
  • If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
  • The future of the world is in my classroom today.
  • One day middle school will end and become high school and after that it just becomes life. All those things you think are important now won’t be anymore.
  • Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
  • You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
  • The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
  • School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.
  • Every day is the first day of school.
  • There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
  • Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
  • I wanna make a joke about sodium, but Na..
  • First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.
  • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
  • What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
  • Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
  • Everything you do–good or ‘bad’–affects everyone else in the room. That means everything you do matters because you matter.
  • Struggling is a part of learning. If it’s simple or simply done, you’re probably not learning anything.
  • You’re off to great places. Today is your day!
  • Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today’s world—an assigned parking space.
  • Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
  • I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
  • School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.
  • What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
  • You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
  • Education is the key to opportunity.
  • What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
  • We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
  • I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.
  • Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
  • Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
  • As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
  • I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
  • It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
  • Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
  • The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
  • Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
  • Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different…just try hard to be you.
  • My wife gave birth 4 times and still fits in her prom dress from high school. I gave birth 0 times and I don't fit in my pants from March.
  • A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
  • The road to —here and everywhere on earth—begins in the classroom.
  • We learn 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we see and hear, 70% of what we discuss, 80% of what we experience, 95% of what we teach others.
  • The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.
  • Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
  • College is the opposite of kidnapping. They demand $100,000 from you or they'll send your kid back.
  • I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
  • Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”— Arthur Ashe
  • If you think your teachers are tough, wait ‘til you get a boss.
  • Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
  • Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
  • You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
  • It’s one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.
  • One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.
  • Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
  • Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
  • The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
  • You learn something everyday if you pay attention.
  • This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
  • My math teacher called me average. How mean!

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