School Quotes

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.