School Quotes

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

Don't just dream it. Be it!

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.