School Quotes

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

Education is our passport to the future.

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.