School Quotes

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

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.

One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan.

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.