School Quotes

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, ...

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinn...

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in way...

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type ...

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system...

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely th...

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary s...

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to expe...

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was a...

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, so...

The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had re...

I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is goi...

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of re...

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's wha...

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a che...

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you ...

I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because t...

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about th...

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow ...

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way ...

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, i...

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was dis...

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ...

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their ha...

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in ...

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous....

I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with an...

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm...

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over...

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies...

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like ...

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to ...

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are coo...

Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason...

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of wha...

Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. ...

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exis...

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make f...

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies ...

The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 2...

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, j...

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. ...

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never h...

Immature citizens in several sizes were massed before a large factorylike structure where advanced t...

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adoles...

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from d...

School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years...

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song...

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is someth...

Do you know how to pick a lock?""Not in the least, I'm afraid.""I often wonder what we go to school ...

Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor ...

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law ...

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and...

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to mak...

I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way...

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw eve...

When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in ...

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of ob...

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was mus...

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much ha...

I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or atten...

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who ar...

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked ...

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emph...

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, wi...

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year a...

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the ve...

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you...

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by ro...

It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and...

I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a ...

Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campo...

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off s...

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interes...

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautif...

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to...

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI ...

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor ...

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything li...

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I...

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared ...