In School Quotes

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'

But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there.

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says people need to shave twice a day.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.