Anne Sebba Quotes

I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

I was home-schooled.

When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.

I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.

My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being ill contributed to my development as a writer. I learned early on to entertain myself by reading.

When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

I was very weak in my childhood, and arthritis took a toll on me. But my parents did everything in their might to help me recover. Slowly, I started recovering from the illness, and I made a pact with myself that I would not let my past dwell on my future.

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

Literature + Illness = Illness

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.