School Quotes

"Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst"

Zach Braff, Actor

"I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz"

David Geffen, Businessman

"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live"

Jane Addams, Activist

"In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education"

Russell Means, Activist

"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour"

Lars von Trier, Director

"Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is"

Marcia Gay Harden, Actress

"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools"

David Selby, Actor

"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten"

Ethan Embry, Actor

"I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer"

Zooey Deschanel, Actress

"When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me"

Helena Christensen, Model

"I studied cooking all through high school"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

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