School Quotes

"One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art"

Ice Cube, Musician

"Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly"

Suzy Bogguss, Musician

"We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles"

Mary Antin, Activist

"My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history"

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

"But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive"

Norm Coleman, Politician

"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things"

Lauren Ambrose, Actress

"We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects"

Sonia Sotomayor, Judge

"As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear"

John Mayall, Musician

"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'"

Robbie Coltraine, Actor

"In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting"

Illeana Douglas, Actress

"The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school"

Mimi Rogers, Actress

"I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"I was a scam artist in high school for a while"

Scott Caan, Actor

"And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school"

Sarah Silverman, Comedian

"In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out"

Roy Romer, Politician

"I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me"

Portia de Rossi, Actress

"I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later"

William Jackson

"I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system"

John Hume, Politician

"I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be"

Sean Bean, Actor

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