School Quotes
I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.
When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.
The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now
I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.
Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.
Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.
I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.
I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."
Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.
My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.
I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!
In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.
I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.
Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.
You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.
Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.
The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.