In School Quotes

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.

The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!

I never liked group work in school.

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was Detroit Rock City. I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.

It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

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.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

A school’s job [is] to begin education.

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

I prefer the school of life.

When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet.

I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff” school of thought.

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.