School Quotes

"I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like "What did you do to yourself?" I was so embarrassed"

Ashley Tisdale, Actress

"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off"

George Cole, Actor

"I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies"

Virginia Madsen, Actress

"I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school"

Joe Tex, Musician

"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother"

Tre Cool, Musician

"I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through"

Randy Harrison, Actor

"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it"

Matthew Bright, Director

"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject"

Byron White, Judge

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician"

Cassandra Wilson, Musician

"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board"

Mark Twain, Author

"I've never let my school interfere with my education"

Mark Twain, Author

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers"

Woody Allen, Director

"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"The child has a hundred languages – and a hundred hundred hundred more – but they steal ninety-nine. The school and the culture separate the head from the body"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret"

Ronald Reagan, President

"There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for"

Mae West, Actress

"The schools ain't what they used to be and never was"

Will Rogers, Actor

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