School Quotes

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.