School Quotes

"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher"

"I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations"

John Perkins, Economist

"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"My school is attended by near three hundred scholars"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer"

T-Bone Burnett

"We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools"

Jon Porter, Politician

"When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes"

William Bell

"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces"

Kate Moss, Model

"I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"I played a lot of character parts in school"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years"

Brian De Palma, Director

"As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools"

Major Owens, Politician

"With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway"

George Michael, Musician

"It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school"

John Bright, Politician

"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift"

Zac Efron, Actor

"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools"

William Bennett, Politician

"I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"I did not go to film school"

Richard King, Director

"I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down"

Zac Efron, Actor

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