“ Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our fa… Anne Lamott
“ The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy. Henry Jenkins
“ With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the… Criss Jami
“ Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. Doug Larson
“ I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. Mark Ruffalo
“ Okay, write that down, Hermoine said to Ron, pushing his essay and a sheet covered in her own writing back to Ron, and then copy out this conclusion that I've written for you.Hermoine, you are honestl… J.K. Rowling
“ It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from p… Mike Birbiglia
“ Our car would've burned up too, but Michael, who is only twelve, got in it and backed it away. I climbed in with him and noticed some of my school books in the car, so I took them out and threw them i… Fannie Flagg
“ Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless… J.K. Rowling
“ Is this your holiday homework? asked Sarah. Don't do it, Rose! And Eve will write you a note to say it's iniquitous to give eight-year-olds homework. You will, won't you, Eve?I could never spell 'iniq… Hilary McKay
“ Hello, Mrs. Tran...I have David's homework. And if you ever want to see it again, you'll pay me the two million dollars I asked for. Nenia Campbell
“ It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art… B.J. Novak
“ Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus—woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love. Molly Ringle
“ I love having to attend the one class that is being taught by a professor who feels that their class is the only class being taught at the University and gives nothing but busy work. Heather Chapple
“ I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have… John Green
“ On a lighter but serious side I believe that homework was meant for parents to take a keen interest in the studies of children rather than leave it completely for the teacher. This way the parent chil… Amit Abraham
