School Quotes

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

"I take my son to school and then I drive 45 minutes to practice with my ABA team, the Florida Pit Bulls, from 10 to 1. In the afternoon, I have meetings"

Tim Hardaway, Athlete

"I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show"

Emily Mortimer, Actress

"I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"I was a geek in high school"

David Schwimmer, Actor

"We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio"

Nick Cannon, Musician

"I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel"

Alison Lohman, Actress

"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that"

Joan Collins, Actress

"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things"

John Irving, Novelist

"In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France"

Suzanne Fields

"I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology"

Major Owens, Politician

"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have"

Kate Moss, Model

"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included"

Major Owens, Politician

"I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors"

John Hench, Artist

"I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college"

John Sexton, Educator

"If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

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