School Quotes · Page 117

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

On Saturdays and after school I'd do classes in tap, ballet, acrobatics... everything.

— Michaela Strachan

“I didn’t really know how I felt about a school named ‘Butts Road”

— Herobrine Books

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home…

— Norman Wisdom

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

— Charles Haynes

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

— Phil LaMarr

I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe.

— Blake Lively

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and…

— Winston Churchill

I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference…

— Timothy Simons

I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down…

— Tom Brokaw

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic…

— Patrick White

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and…

— Will Smith

When I got into high school, that's when I stated dabbling in fashion design. I got involved in the theater department's costume…

— Ashley Nell Tipton

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very…

— Christopher Gorham

If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school…

— Julio Frenk

When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I don't know if you want to call it, like, 'an old school guy' or what, but you've got to go out…

— Frankie Edgar

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with…

— Mike Davidson

I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary…

— Paul Walker

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people…

— Ivan Illich

We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, blues, Mozart, Mary Poppins, Frank Sinatra,…

— Michelle Carter

I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

— Lester Frank Ward

BlowinRings. Some people go to high school. We go to school high

— Painkiller

“We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.”

— Kamila Shamsie

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

— F. Gary Gray

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

— Pete Seeger

Over-dramatically turning the page on a test so people know you're ahead of them.

— Anonymous

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

— Albert Einstein

No matter how much sleep I get, I'm always tired when I get up for school!

— Anonymous

Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.

— Malala Yousafzai

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

— Kate Brown

I joined the Lib Dem party at the Freshers' Fair at the London School of Economics.

— Jo Swinson

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

— David Talbot

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.

— Kim Harrison

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

— Oscar Robertson

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

— Pinetop Perkins

I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

— Adam Brody