Robert Quote #527
Robert: You're right, Debra, I'm sorry. Hey, come on. Cubby, you can't play video games if you haven't finished your homework.
Ray: I'm gonna get to it.
Debra: When?
Robert: You know, Raymond, every day at the end of my shift, I have a mountain of paperwork. And you know when I do it?
Ray: When you're supposed to be out buying nose-hair clippers?
Robert: I do it right away. Because there is no worse feeling than when you've put something off to the last second, and it's getting dark, and the clock is ticking, and you realize you're never gonna make it.
Ray: Go. Get outta here. Get outta here!
Robert: All right. Very well. But just so you won't be distracted, I'm gonna take this little item with me.
Ray: It's not yours!
Robert: This way you can get all your work done. By tomorrow morning I shall be the greatest zombie hunter of all time.
Everybody Loves Raymond Quotes
‘Homework’ Quotes
Quote from Ray
Ray: Ahem. Hi. Uh, thank you. All right. Wow. Uh, I was up all night goin' over the material, and, uh... Well, I just got a few things to say. You know, when I was a kid, I always thought that we had too much homework. And, um, since I hated all the homework, I started to hate learning. In fact, what I learned to do more than anything else was to avoid the work. I'm sorry to say I still try to avoid it whenever I can. Just ask my wife. Uh... But, you know, it seems to me like the kids today, they've got 10 times the homework that we had. You know? And I don't want my daughter to hate learning. I want her to be curious and thoughtful and get excited about new ideas. And most of all, and I think this is what we want for all our kids, I want her to be happy. I mean, I think there's homework that's important and everything, and then I think there's overload. I mean, are we piling it on? We're so worried about the kids won't be competitive and our kids won't have a future, that we're takin' away their present. Anyway, so, you know, maybe we can just keep that in mind. 'Cause isn't that the kind of school that we want our children to be at? I mean in. I mean of. I mean a part of. I mean, isn't that... Isn't that the kind of school that we want our children to be a part of? In.
Board Member: [to teacher] And you wanted to cut down on the English homework.
Quote from Ray
Marie: Raymond, you never read Tom Sawyer?
Ray: Well, all right, I didn't. So what?
Marie: You never read Tom Sawyer?!
Ray: And you never read Legendary Running Backs of the NFL.
Marie: That's sports.
Ray: That's right, Ma, a sports book. A sports book! That's because that's what I liked! All this stuff they make you do in school, that's what they think is important. I did- I read what I wanted to, and look at me. I am someone who did not read Tom Sawyer, and yet I did not turn out to be a hobo.
Quote from Marie
Marie: Obviously you just did enough work to get by. And now you're proud of it.
Ray: Well, yeah! I am proud of it! All those sports books I read and all the sports I watched on TV, that's how I got to be where I'm at.
Marie: "That's how I got to be where I'm at"?
Ray: Yeah. That's right.
Marie: You're a writer, and that's how you use the English language?
Ray: What? What are you talkin' about?
Marie: You do not end a sentence with "at."
Ray: All right, big deal, I ended it with a proposition.
Marie: Preposition, it's a prep - Oh, my God!
Ray: What? What are you getting so upset about?
Marie: Because this is the end of civilization! People like you don't want to work or learn anything because they're too busy with their remote control television or playing with their hula-hoops! And before you know it, that's where we're at!