School Quotes

"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught"

Method Man, Musician

"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department"

Sela Ward, Actress

"I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"I had gone to school to study marine biology"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"Life is a school of probability"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school"

Horace Walpole, Author

"It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school"

Herman Hesse, Author

"I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences"

Buck Owens, Musician

"No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read"

Bob Riley, Politician

"When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first"

Bob Riley, Politician

"But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher"

William Glasser, Psychologist

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