School Quotes

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.

In every high school, there is a clique.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

I finally just slept with my high school crush. But I swear; now he expects me to go to his graduation - like I know where I'm going to be in three years.

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.