School Quotes

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I was a dummy in school.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.