In School Quotes

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn't sound so bad at that.

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?" "I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true—and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You.

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.

If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up!

Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I've got to go to school the next day. It's like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

The college recruiting process shouldn't be about how many schools have interest in you or how many offers you get, it should be about you finding the right school.

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

For digital natives, public schools are jails

I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.