Famous quotes containing the words public, elementary and/or school:
“When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, Give em Watts, boysgive em Watts!”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“When the Devil quotes Scriptures, its not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.”
—Paul Goodman (19111972)
“You send a boy to school in order to make friendsthe right sort.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)