School Quotes

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.

Lawless schools produce lawless children.

I hate my smile. I always have, even in my school pictures when I was a little kid.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

I got expelled from my school when I was 12; I was quite bad!

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.

I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

Sometimes it is hard because my schedule is crazy. I am homeschooled, so my school travels with me.

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't.

I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.