In School Quotes

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.

During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.

My favorite memory from school was going to football games with my friends. We always had so much spirit and dressed up to go to the games, even though our team was pretty bad.

I've got dyslexia. When I was in school, it wasn't really recognized as much as it is today; I'm really glad that people are a lot more aware of it now.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

The only thing wrong with me was that I was a weirdo that hated school. I'm sure now there'd be a disorder for it, but I was just an oddball.

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.

I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think thats what really started me off.

Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

I didn't apply to different schools. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

My top priority is to stop the cuts to our public schools.

I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew how to do, graphic design.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.