School Quotes

"I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work"

"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad"

"A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school"

"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school"

David E. Kelley, Producer

"I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date"

Nathan Lane, Actor

"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school"

Mia Kirshner, Actress

"I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school"

Joel Madden, Musician

"In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana"

James Tobin, Economist

"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools"

Jeremy London, Actor

"To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter"

Luke Ford, Writer

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up"

Lenny Bruce, Comedian

"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers"

Edward W. Howe

"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University"

George Stigler, Economist

"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line"

Faith Ford, Actress

"As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community"

Ed Pastor, Politician

"I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"Art imitates life. Life imitates high school"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past"

Ed Markey, Politician

"Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs"

Florence King, Writer

"I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back"

Denzel Washington, Actor

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