School Quotes

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house.

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.

I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.

I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.