School Quotes

"I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school"

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school"

"I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school"

"I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing"

Dana Hill, Actress

"My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study"

Anton Seidl, Musician

"Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts"

Marla Sokoloff, Actor

"I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part"

Marisa Tomei, Actress

"The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand"

Sheldon Jackson, Politician

"I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

"I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating"

Ryan Sheckler, Athlete

"I played cello in my high school orchestra"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then"

David Dinkins, Politician

"I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law"

June Jordan, Writer

"After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte"

Vernon L. Smith, Economist

"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off"

Ronald Biggs, Celebrity

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses"

Lenny Bruce, Comedian

"It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded"

Rita Dove, Poet

"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school"

Mary Stuart Masterson, Actress

"I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater"

John Hughes, Director

"I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together"

Santiago Durango, Musician

"I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies"

Kristen Stewart, Actress

"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free"

Coolio, Musician

"When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for"

Roy Clark, Entertainer

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