In School Quotes

The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

I didn't go to school a lot.

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits.

If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.

I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.

We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at one place and you stay there, I guess. Inertia takes over.

I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce

I miss school. What’s wrong with me?

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski

Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom.

I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.