Finishing School Quotes

• En la escuela te enseñan una lección y luego te ponen un examen. En la vida, un examen te enseña una lección.

  Tom Bodett

  Vida, Alentar, Educación

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• In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Needs, Pieces, World

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Hace falta valor para crecer y convertirse en quien realmente eres.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspiración, motivación, cumpleaños

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

  Mary Wesley

  Mother, School, Science

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• Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

  Richard Peck

  School, Finishing

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• They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

  Olive Schreiner

  Education, School, Names

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.

  Leslie Ludy

  Queens, School, Two

  Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.23, Harvest House Publishers

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• ...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Dad, Home, School

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

  Olive Schreiner

  Moving, School, Space

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

  Colin Powell

  Educational, Kids, School

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• Algún día despertaremos, tendremos una reforma del corazón, enseñaremos honor a nuestros hijos y mataremos a unos cuantos psicólogos sexuales, pondremos a los chicos en institutos con profesores hombres (no mariquitas), cerraremos todos los colegios de señoritas, fusilaremos a todos los expertos en eficiencia y volveremos a ser una nación del pueblo de Dios.

  Harry S. Truman

  Girl, Teacher, Sex

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• Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

  Robert D. Hare

  School, Skills, Technique

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• My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

  George Hamilton

  Girl, Mother, New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a small hint of fang. Sophronia grinned back. "I'm glad we understand each other, sir." The vampire looked out into the night. "This is the right finishing school for you, isn't it, whot?" "Yes sir, I think it might very well be." "A piece of advice, Miss Temminnick?" "Sir?" "It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you." "Now, sir, I thought you didn't see any soot.

  Gail Carriger

  Escuela, Noche, Pensamiento

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