School Quotes

"I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid"

Martin Mull, Actor

"A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school"

Eva Green, Actress

"We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'"

Zac Efron, Actor

"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed"

William Bennett, Politician

"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools"

Jon Porter, Politician

"When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school"

Brian De Palma, Director

"In this way, some film schools can be destructive"

Richard King, Director

"I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good"

Richard King, Director

"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind"

Johnny Vegas, Comedian

"It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent"

Donal Logue, Actor

"I went to high school with Al Capone"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"

Blake Lively, Actress

"I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough"

Carmen Electra, Actress

"I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle"

Dorothy Malone, Actress

"I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe"

Blake Lively, Actress

"But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

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

Delmore Schwartz, Poet

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

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends"

Emily Mortimer, Actress

"We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever"

Sly Stone, Musician

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

Loretta Swit, Actress

"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school"

Robert Pattinson, Actor

"I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began"

John Henrik Clarke, Author

"I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression"

Jim Thome, Athlete

"I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

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