School Quotes · Page 164

I've never really spoken French. I didn't do French lessons at school, so I'm starting from scratch.

— Nikita Parris

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

— James Toney

I was the kid at school who wore clothes from charity shops.

— Sara Davies

In high school, you can just go out there and play. In the NFL it was so much more mental.

— Nnamdi Asomugha

I wasn't a cheerleader in high school, but I was the leader of my soccer team.

— Taylor Louderman

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

— Thomas Carlyle

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

— Michael McIntyre

As a boy, I was about the slkowest moving youngster in school.

— Clarence DeMar

“Already? How can this be?” I would ask, shattered by the terrible truth that I needed a three-ring binder and some #2…

— Barbara Kingsolver

With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often.…

— Yasmin Paige

Both my brothers played football. My mother had season tickets as a school board member. I was in the band, my sister…

— Lori Lightfoot

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're…

— Walter Dean Myers

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were…

— Matthew Morrison

We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School - but they all paled in comparison…

— Dave Barry

I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.

— Jordan Henderson

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

— Kris Allen

We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the…

— Hailey Gates

Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got…

— Brian McKnight

I feel incredibly blessed. I'm happy, but all of this movie business, and working as an actress is really hard. When you're…

— Rutina Wesley

I'm proud to have opened [two] schools in Africa and one in Jamaica [through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners]. I…

— Serena Williams

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot…

— Alan Alda

I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school…

— DeRay Mckesson

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

According to a new book coming out by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, apparently when he was in high school, President Obama smoked…

— Jay Leno

“If you want to be a different fish you gotta get out of the school”

— Captain Beefheart

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

— Patricia A. Woertz

I dropped out of school when I was 17. And I had no hope for the future.

— Nancy Mace

I was the kid at school who would make the joke about himself before anyone else did.

— Joe Sugg

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

— Kid Rock

I'm definitely going back to school to be a computer engineer.

— Andre Drummond

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

— Sixto Rodriguez

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law…

— Joe Biden

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

— F. Sionil Jose

“School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.”

— Susan Meissner

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

— Michael Morpurgo

I wish I could go to school without studying, and just have fun with my friends.

— Anonymous

During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

— Ryan White

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.

— Lydia Ko

I've been interested in fashion since school, and I studied it in college.

— Riya Sen