St Joan of Arc Catholic Primary School - Includes term dates, information about Beacon School status, learning resources, an OFSTED report summary, photos, and pupils' work.
The Old Bootleians Association - For former pupils of Bootle Secondary School for Boys and Bootle Grammar School for Boys. Contacts and information about events.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Education "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Education
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Education "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Education Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Education
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Education "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Education
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Education "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Education
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Education I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Education
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Education
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Education "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Education
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Education "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Education
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Education When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Education
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Education Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Education
