School Quotes

"I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers"

John T. Walton, Businessman

"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school"

Denise Richards, Actress

"The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools"

Bob Riley, Politician

"The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band"

Ron Wood, Musician

"My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Most every dental school has discount dental services"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts"

William Weld, Politician

"I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

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