School Quotes

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

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

Access to a school library results in more reading.

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.