School Quotes

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 ...

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now...

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's...

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf...

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teacher...

[On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now the...

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half o...

I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me; though he was very carefu...

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and the...

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about ...

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illu...

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to...

What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the poin...

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others...

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get ou...

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fiv...

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear...

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer...

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young...

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of du...

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and e...

My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, an...

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructu...

I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.''That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone mus...

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Gran...

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be...

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free...

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed he...

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education...

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means...

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...

I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due t...