Back To School Quotes

“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change come the onset of September; yet still, I feel the old trepidation.”
― Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

“It's Harvest Time.
Jewish New Year.
Back to School.
The new theatrical season.
These are September to me.

Apples and honey,
sharpened pencils
and the sounds of warm-ups,
voices and bodies getting going.
Hope and promise
and things re-newed.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Labor builds us in ways that games and gyms can't.
When you build a house, you have both a house and a builder.
When you plant a garden, you have fruits and vegetables,
and a gardener, too.
When you teach, if you remain open to your students
and discovery itself,
you have a lifetime of learning.
When you tend to someone,
you build your own empathy and compassion.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Engage with the world and it will hone you,
more connected and less frivolous.”
― Shellen Lubin

“We ourselves
are as much a result of the work we do
as the product of that work will ever be.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Tom grabbed his arm and pointed gasping, at the dime-store window. They stood there, unable to move because of the things from another world displayed so neatly, so innocently, so frighteningly, there.
‘Pencils, Doug, ten thousand pencils!‘
‘Oh, my gosh!‘
‘Nickel tablets, dime tablets, notebooks, erasers, water colors, rulers, compasses, a hundred thousand of them!‘
‘Don‘t look. Maybe it‘s just a mirage.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“We were all different shapes, sizes, and colors. But, we were all kindergartners and we all were excited.
_Banicia

Mr. Shipman;s Kindergarten Chronicles: The First Day of School”
― Terance Shipman, Mr. Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles: December Celebrations: December Holidays

“But I am an author, and authors are curious. We observe things, spy on things, record things, listen in on people’s conversations, and use bits and pieces of the information gathered to flavour our prose stew.”
― Yvonne Blackwood, College Life of a Retired Senior: A Memoir of Perseverance, Faith, and Finding the Way

“I think we should wean Grandma.”
― Renata Suerth, New School & Other Stuff

“Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans."
A great reminder when planning out the school year.”
― Tamara L. Chilver

“November 1st, All Saints Day,
Dawned crisp and bright,
Golden leaves and burned-out husks of fireworks,
Lay strewn in the grass by the smouldering bonfire.”
― Stewart Stafford

“And instantly I felt like the child who panics when she starts seeing back-to-school ads on TV in July: Don't they know that school doesn't start for two whole months?”
― Sarah Jio, The Violets of March