School Quotes

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.