School Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends.

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.

With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.

Why don't they teach logic at these schools?

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

The tie's a multi purpose accessory, y'know, belt, school boy, Rambo.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.

The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.

I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.

God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

High school is about finding who you are, because that's more important than trying to be someone else.

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.