School Quotes

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.

Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.