School Quotes · Page 103

“Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing can happen to a great mind.”

— Ken Robinson Ph.D

“A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

After graduating from Stanford business school, I was working at McKinsey, crunching numbers for spreadsheets.

— Doug Burgum

I always tell people that I went through long hair. I was a typical art school scruff. It was good then.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

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

— Chris Rock

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

— Dave Eggers

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

— Carl Hiaasen

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that…

— Lauren Groff

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I…

— William Shatner

I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I…

— Taylor Swift

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy,…

— Rick Riordan

School is not easy for kids and football wasn't easy for me... but if it's something you truly believe in, it's something…

— Emmitt Smith

I did 'Oh Holy Night,' which is one that I grew up listening to because I was in choir in high school…

— Sabrina Claudio

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

— Henry Ward Beecher

How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way…

— Peter Senge

Being in class and you take something that belongs to the teacher as a joke and they don't realize it until you…

— LaJuneJean

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I…

— Olive Schreiner

When I was younger, when I first figured out how to work GarageBand and worked out a system of how to record…

— Alex G

I went to a terrifying boarding school and everyone was a brilliant singer or musician or artist, and I wasn't good at…

— Geraldine James

When I was born here in Washington, my parents were public school teachers, and to express both pride in their heritage and…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Obama administration doesn't see schools as a public good. It doesn't see schools as places where basically we can educate students…

— Henry Giroux

I never imagined getting to do what I love for a living and having so many people appreciate it. There was only…

— Tony Hawk

I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I went through my entire public school career going to bed crying because I was getting Ds.

— Eric Adams

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

— Peyton List

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group

— Shane West

I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a…

— Mickie James

I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.

— Jay Duplass

When I think of my high school days, the song that I think about is Deana Carter's 'Strawberry Wine.'

— Lainey Wilson

I was in the eighth standard and was selected as part of my school to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

— Robert A. Burton

In college and high school, you're always taught to hit the ball on the ground and on a line.

— Alex Bregman

Athletics is the mother of all sport and every child must try out it once during his school days.

— Milkha Singh

We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips!

— Robert Pattinson

If Twitter, YouTube and Google were part of my school subjects, my parents would be so proud of me.

— Anonymous

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

— Lara Stone

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

— John C. Reilly

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

— Santiago Durango