School Quotes

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great?

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

High school is just like glee, a bunch of people dying of drug overdose.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.

Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact in reducing fertility is girls' education.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.