In School Quotes

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

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

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

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

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

I founded this school for the masses.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

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 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.

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

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

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do.

I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost... my virginity.

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.