School Quotes · Page 182

I was on the steering committee of the New York City Coalition on Muslim School Holidays.

— Linda Sarsour

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

— Demetri Martin

The down side to being smart is when you get into trouble, you can't play dumb

— Anonymous

My dad painted cars for a living. He didn't graduate from high school.

— Julie Sweet

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

— Tre Cool

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

— Jodie Foster

I was just obsessed with Rik Mayall and I copied being him at school for years.

— Richard Herring

I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.

— Masaba Gupta

I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should…

— Heather McDonald

Well, I used to model back in high school, and I was one of those people that, every week I was tuning…

— KiKi Layne

I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I…

— Jeff Fisher

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of…

— Robert M. Hutchins

'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I…

— Claire Coffee

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I…

— KiKi Layne

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which…

— Reese Witherspoon

I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I've been fascinated with gargoyles since I was a kid. I took a high school trip to Europe, the 8 countries in…

— Greg Weisman

In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids…

— Sarah Steele

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible…

— Danica McKellar

The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is…

— Dana Goldstein

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me…

— Skylar Astin

I used to be with Gucci every day. School nights, I was with Gucci going to all the different clubs, going to…

— Mike Will Made It

My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was…

— Mavis Staples

I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff,…

— Ice T

“There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.”

— Lemony Snicket

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

— Flavor Flav

All my siblings went to college, and my parents stressed getting school work done first before we could play.

— Chris Mullin

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

— David Miliband

I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself - I regret letting that…

— Suranne Jones

I fucked up so bad...I regret blowing my grades off just because it was my first year.

— Anonymous

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

— Anonymous

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

— Winston Churchill

When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.

— Emo Philips

The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize

— Franklin D Roosevelt

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

— Frederick Lenz

I was a receiver until I was a freshman in high school. I didn't play quarterback until I was a freshman.

— Kurt Warner

I was good at math before they decided to mix the alphabet in it.

— Rick Sutter

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

— Oriana Fallaci

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

— David Henry Hwang

How are u in beauty school and still ugly as shit? WTF are u studying?

— Derick Menendez