In School Quotes

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

In school, I was an underachiever.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

Such pushy people, the school union chiefs.It's almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost.

If [Donald Trump] is paid zero [taxes], that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.

I've been really impressed at some of the investments that I've seen in community college and technical schools that are training young people for these jobs in 3D printing and the like.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

If we are wise, we never leave school.

School is the cheapest police.

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.

When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

I grew up watching Grease, and Grease 2. I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. Id love the challenge now.

In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!

Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.

As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.