School Quotes

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

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

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.

I think at some point at a moment of enlightenment in the future, the federal government and perhaps a future Supreme Court is going to say it's not a bad thing for children to hear prayer in school.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.