School Quotes

In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up writing for a magazine or something.

They [my sons] all went to different schools and all did different things. They're about as different for five kids as you'll ever see. They don't do anything the same.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.

I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.