School Quotes

Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt quite lonely. I think that's where it all started for me.

To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

I wasn't really happy in school and didn't really have anything else going for me; I wasn't really good at anything. Drama was at least something I loved and was really passionate about.

Tell tales out of school.

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.