School Quotes

"I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools"

"I was an elementary school teacher"

"Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much"

Kieran Culkin, Actor

"We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'"

Morgan Spurlock, Director

"I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was"

Mary Cheney, Celebrity

"Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear"

Jena Malone, Actress

"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me"

Devon Sawa, Actor

"I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends"

Devon Sawa, Actor

"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory"

Jessica Simpson, Musician

"I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools"

Eydie Gorme, Musician

"I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful"

Joan Didion, Author

"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky"

Jeremy London, Actor

"With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it"

Craig Benson, Politician

"I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools"

Chaka Khan, Musician

"Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all"

Ed Markey, Politician

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