School Quotes

Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.