School Quotes
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.
There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.
I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.
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.
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.
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.
I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.
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.
We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.
Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.
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.
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.
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.
You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.
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.
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.
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.
Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.
President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.
I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.