Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

John BrightPolitician · British · 1811 – 1889
More from John Bright
Education Quotes
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. — Henry David Thoreau
  • Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. — Mohandas Gandhi
  • A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken
  • I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago. — John Bright
  • The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter. — John Bright
  • I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women. — John Bright
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026