Danny NewmanIs it me or does time pass quicker every year? When I first wrote this post, it had been a decade since I left school. But that was three years ago now!
I still reflect on my school days, though.
From the friends I’ve lost touch with to the turbulent teenage years, teachers (good and bad), and even the playground politics…It’s all very much cemented in memory.
If you’re looking to reminisce about those days, too, here are 70 school memories quotes that might help.
Let’s get into it! Read on for a long list of missing school days messages and quotes to assuage (or spark) your nostalgia.
Best School Memories Quotes
1. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
2. “I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.” – Cara Delevingne
3. “No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.” – Saul Bellow
4. “What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.” – J.J. Watt
5. “We knew we were different, even from out elementary school days. We were the class clowns; we engaged with people differently. We knew there was something out there that was meant for us.” – Drew Scott
6. “That’s the joy of going to a high school reunion: it’s seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.” – Jon Hurwitz
7. Your school career is one of the only things in life where you join crying and leave crying.
8. “When I say I miss school, I mean the friends and the fun. Not the school.” – Unknown
9. “I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.” – Woody Allen
10. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
11. “Everyone in our school has afterschool activities. Mine is going home.” – David Levithan
12. High school is for discovering yourself, making mistakes, and making lifelong friends.
13. “The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not graduation day.” – Harry Wong
14. “High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.” – Giancarlo Stanton
15. School wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. But because I met the people I did I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Next up: 10 short quotes on school life.
Short Quotes for School Memories
16. “Adversity is a good school” – Charlotte Bronte
17. I miss the old days.
18. I’ll never forget the joy of the school bell.
19. “School is cool. That’s why it rhymes.” – Terry Crews
20. “We learn not in school, but in life.” – Seneca
21. “School is a foretaste of life.” – Georg Brandes
22. I miss school. Now there’s something I never thought I’d say!
23. Only now do I realise the true value of school.
24. Losing touch with school friends is a major tragedy of time.
25. “If there’s hell on earth, it’s high school.” – Lisa Desrochers
Looking for some funny quotes for school memories? Check out this upcoming section…
Funny Quotes on School Life Memories
26. “We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” – Peter de Vries
27. “My school days were the happiest days of my life, which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past 25 years!” – Paul Merton
28. “Homework stood for ‘half of my energy wasted on random knowledge’!” – Unknown
29. School for 12 years, college for 4 more years, then you work until you die. Makes sense.
30. If we go to school to learn, and knowledge is power and power is corrupt and corruption is crime and crime doesn’t pay, then why the hell do we go to school?!
31. “Show me the man who enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.” – Robert Morley
32. “School means work and work means death. Let’s all go take a nap.” – Emma Shannon
33. The first day of school is always a fashion show. The rest of the school year? A pyjama party.
34. “As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.” – Cokie Roberts
35. “My mom thought I went to school to learn, but I really went to school to irritate my teachers!” – Unknown
Some of the best school life quotes help you reflect on the experience! Here are 10 of them…
Nostalgic Missing School Days Quotes
36. “It wasn’t just school to me, it was the chapter I never wanted to end.” – Unknown
37. “Sometimes my old school memories sneak out from my eyes and roll down my cheeks.” – Unknown
38. “The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom.” – Alan Bennett
39. “Thank you for all the memories that I hold so dear in my heart, and as time goes by new ones will form, but the old ones shall never depart.” – Danielle Neidich
40. I miss the days when we’d hang out, goof around, make each other laugh and do ridiculous things together at school.
41. “I miss the things that made me laugh back then, the memories I had with my friends.” – Unknown
42. “Back in my school days, when I would scuttle off with a cheese roll, an apple, a box of Sun-Maid raisins, and a Penguin bar, my packed lunches were reassuringly predictable. And I liked it that way.” – Rachel Khoo
43. The awkward moment when you’re at the parent/teacher conference and the teacher’s talking about you, and you’re right there.
44. “I have had playmates, I have had companions; in my days of childhood, in my joyful school days. All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.” – Charles Lamb
45. When you eventually come out of school and enter adulthood, you can’t help but wonder why they didn’t teach you much about love.
Next up: some memorable missing school quotes.
Memorable School Life Quotes
46. “School times end but the memories last forever.” – Unknown
47. “I still think I prefer school life to any other part of life, and I’m 30 now!”
48. “I’ve never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.” – Jeff Kinney
49. “The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.” – Will Smith
50. “Ever since my grade school days, as I mastered the art of “faking sick” and I stumbled across “The View”, I’ve been confusedly asking myself the same question…How do these dumb broads remain gainfully employed?” – Steven Crowder
51. A note to my teenage self: do not let your grades, teachers, or fellow students define your self-worth.
52. Looking back, school seems like the only place you can truly be yourself.
53. “To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools, and schools.” – Leo Tolstoy
54. “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain
55. At school, all I wanted was to get out of it, to go out and explore the world; to live life as an adult. Now that I’m here, though, all I want to do is rewind the clock and go back to school!
56. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin
57. “School is the easiest job you’ll ever have.” – Marty Klazmer
58. “School is a lot like toilet paper. You only miss it when it’s gone.” – Unknown
59. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry B. Adams
60. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
Last but not least, here are some high school memories quotes!
Insightful High School Memories Quotes
61. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey
62. School was hard, dull, annoying, and irritating. But for some reason I still miss it!
63. “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” – Kurt Vonnegut
64. “It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in Middle School.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
65. “High school is about finding who you are, because that’s more important than trying to be someone else.” – Nick Jonas
66. “A school is a building that has four walls…with tomorrow inside.” – Lon Watters
67. “High school is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.” – Frank Portman
68. No matter how much you hate school when you’re there, a part of you still misses it when you leave.
69. “Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.” – Chuck Palahniuk
70. “My closest friends are from my high school days.” – Peyton Manning
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There you have it then: 65 school memories quotes.
If you’ve been reminiscing about your school days recently and feeling a tad nostalgic, then I hope they’ve come in handy.
Missing school days quotes are a handy tool for reflecting on those formative years, reliving your time in the classroom, and appreciating the experience with all the parks of hindsight.
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