School Quotes

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end.

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others positions, no matter how odious.

One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

I was quite naughty at school.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

I dated the same girl all through high school.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

If we invest in jobs for our kids and do our best to keep them in school, we will end up saving a whole lot of lives and whole lot of money.

We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'

Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless