School Quotes · Page 216

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

— Ed Asner

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

— Rick Springfield

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

— Rita Rudner

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

— Alice Englert

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

— Henry Ford

“I grin back and breathe in the sweet smell of sweat, whiteboard marker and fear. The smells of high school.”

— Charlie Human

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

— Kim Basinger

I started school in the 4th grade and it was a real drag.

— Cree Summer

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over…

— Marilyn vos Savant

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object…

— Ezra Furman

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that…

— James Green Somerville

I remember when I was in school I had this teacher give me this E.L. Doctorow quote: They asked him how much…

— Scott Snyder

Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty…

— Noam Chomsky

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club…

— Jon Gordon

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because…

— Channing Tatum

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that…

— Nancy Spero

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and…

— Greta Gerwig

A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more…

— Robert H. Frank

“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

I had a professor in graduate school who told us, 'Know what you're good at, and do that thing.' And I thought,…

— Ruthie Ann Miles

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least…

— James Dobson

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,…

— Adam Weishaupt

St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic…

— Andy Cohen

I was one of those guys who was, I guess, socially popular in school.

— PartyNextDoor

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

— T Bone Burnett

I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

— David Bowie

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

— Karl Malone

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

— Shawn Mendes

There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

— Abby Brammell

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

— Joel Madden

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

— George Smoot

I hate the part of the morning where I have to actually get out of bed and participate in real life.

— Mike

Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends.

— Teri Garr

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

— Hugh Gaitskell

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

— Dennis Farina

It's just crazy to look back at what I was wearing in high school.

— G-Eazy

I was really into emo and scene culture in middle school.

— Hari Nef

“If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.”

— Tim Fargo