School Quotes

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

I'm an old-school guy.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

You might be a redneck if... your high school basketball game got rained out.

You might be a redneck if you dated your daddy's current wife in high school.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

Sunday school don't make you cool forever...

In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one for the wicked Try to escape you'll always fail, The only way out is Through a fairytale.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.

A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff