School Quotes · Page 207

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

— Albert Shanker

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

— Jack Monroe

“opposite: I believe the rest of school (indeed, the rest of life) should become more like kindergarten.”

— Mitchel Resnick

My dad was old school Jewish. Not do your taxes Jewish - steal your car Jewish.

— Dov Davidoff

After high school, I moved to the U.S. and studied music in Boston, at the Berklee College of Music.

— Ramin Djawadi

“To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers.”

— Amit Kalantri

It was hard to leave my school. I've been going to the same school since kindergarden.

— Miley Cyrus

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

— Robin Cook

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down…

— Margaret Atwood

I miss summer weather, I miss summer nights, I miss summer tans, and I miss having no school so I can stay…

— Anonymous

Ashrams and gurukulas (spiritual schools) are the pillars of spiritual culture. If we perform sadhana according to the guru's advice, we need…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Modeling and acting just started kicking up, and I just said 'You know what, there's always time for school, so I'm going…

— Odette Yustman

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Fortunately for me, my grandfather gave us a life I could never dream of. He was my high school football coach, my…

— Jason Witten

As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt…

— Tom Paxton

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

— Lionel Blue

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes…

— Sally Pearson

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected…

— Howard Jacobson

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation,…

— Herbert M. Shelton

I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph…

— Betty Gilpin

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and…

— Helen DeWitt

John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for…

— Gena Rowlands

I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress…

— John C. Reilly

Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all…

— Chris Coleman

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

— Kanye West

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

— Maya Lin

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

— Joel Edgerton

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

— Neil Young

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

— Bette Midler

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

— Robert Greene

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

— Laura Harrier

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

— Katharine McPhee

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

— Emmanuelle Beart

I broke a nail during that tornado drill...someone Gonna get cut!

— Anonymous

Only reason I enjoy going back to school is to see my friends I haven't seen all summer or to see cute…

— Anonymous

There was a model in my high school. She was like, 'You're so pretty. You should come see my agency'.

— Anna Ewers

Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

— Larry King

By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial but just as black.

— Shaun King

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

— Ruby Bridges