School Quotes

The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

I want to be the voice for those people who are going through the same thing, like little African American boys and girls getting bullied at school.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

It was nice to wear a suit at a young age, it's different from a school uniform.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.