School Quotes

"The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level"

John Dyer, Artist

"I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"A child who struggles in school needs someone to believe in them and provide the support they need to succeed"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music"

Barry White, Musician

"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world"

Jason Statham, Actor

"Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years"

Craig Bruce

"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground"

Maya Lin, Architect

"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

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