In School Quotes

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.

It feels great to not be the acne-ridden outsider that I felt like when I was in high school. It's a lot more fun being alive now than it was then, I'll say that much.

I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.

You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

If you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?