School Quotes

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

High School Is Life’s Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.

I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.