School Quotes

I did not go to film school.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

I was a good student in school.

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

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 got very carried away with my 'Harry Potter' life and we did have school but I didn't study. I just had fun.

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.