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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.

    Dad   Home   School  
    Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

  • 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.

    School   Night   Thinking  
  • Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.

    Girl   Teacher   Sex  
  • It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    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
  • 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.

  • [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 . . .

    Moving   School   Space  
    The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)
  • In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

    Needs   Pieces   World  
    Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  • 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.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • 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.

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

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

    Girl   Mother   New York  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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