School Quotes

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

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

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

Life is a school of probability.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.

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

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.

I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

Don't peak in high school.

I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.