1. The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.-Harry Wong
2. Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.-Jenny McCarthy
3. You’re off to great to great places. Today is your first day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!-Dr. Seuss
4. I felt abandoned – watching my mum leave me with strangers. I’ll never forget that feeling. Then I had very happy years at school.-Claire Sweeney
5. I felt like the first day of school or someting. My heart was beating a litttle faster, my anticipation was building up. It was like the first day of school when you go to kindergaten or something.-Carlos Boozer
6. I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.-Jenny Han
7. On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college-Amit Kalantri
8. Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.-Mark Twain
9. The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.-John Ruskin
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10. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.-Victor Hugo
11. What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.-George Bernard Shaw
12. The first day of school is always a fashion show, The rest of the school year? A pajama party.-unknown
13. What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.-Chuck Grassley
14. The first day of school is our second New Year’s. It is our day to make resolutions, to look backward to former lapses and triumphs and to look ahead, usually with a mix of anxiety and hope, to the year to come.-Mark Edmundon
15. I’m not going.-Kate Berube
16. My memories on my first day of school included the classic never-ending search for that one classroom that did not seem to exist.-Sean C. Cusak
17. Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.-Dana Stewart Scott
18. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.-Malcolm X
19. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.-Chinese Proverb
20. Why do people cry on the last day of school? You should be crying on the first day of school.-unknown
21. Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.-Arabella Weir
22. You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.-Josephine Baker
23. The first day of school – The day when the countdown to the last day of the school begins.-unknown
24. That awkward moment on the first day of school when you’ll go in front of the class and introduce yourself.-unknown
25. You learn something every day if you pay attention.-Ray LeBlond
26. Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.-Francis Bacon
27. School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.-Winifred C. Marshal
28. School success is not predicted by a child’s fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures.-Daniel Goleman
29. You come here for one thing and one thing only, and that is to learn. I used to spend a lot of my life waiting for the day I could quit school, but then came to realize that so long as we are alive we never leave school. Life is a series of high schools, one after the other.-RuPaul