School Quotes

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

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.

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

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

Oh, so you see some chick in baggy jeans and a hoodie, and you just have to have her so bad, you decide to repeat high school, just to get her?" "Sounds about right." He laughs.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

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

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

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.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

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.

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.