In School Quotes

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

It is better to support schools than jails.

School gets in the way of my learning.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

In the sense of media saying this about themselves, I drive to my kids' school in upstate New York through rural Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York; [Donald] Trump signs everywhere.

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist.

Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

I never went to drama school.

Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much.

I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

The first day ofschool was always so exciting because you get new shoes and a new backpack, but by the last day of school, you're like, "I don't care. I will wear sweats. Am I done yet?"

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.

When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.

I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.