School Quotes · Page 227

I dropped out of high school when I was 14 and I started tattooing.

— Kat Von D

There was no one really like John Bender at my high school.

— Judd Nelson

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

— Peter Crouch

I had great grades. Why? Because I studied twice as long and twice as hard as everybody else.

— Adam Vinatieri

I did a bit of Spanish at school in Norway, but I don't speak well.

— Martin Odegaard

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

— Mark Kurlansky

My childhood was spent in a typical Mumbai chawl at Girgaum and I studied at the nearby St. Sebastian School.

— Jeetendra

Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.

— Thomas Lickona

When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to…

— Franz Wright

When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook.

— Sarah Jeong

One day I decided I was a star and I would walk to school with my head held high. I would walk…

— Bretman Rock

As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on…

— Martha Nussbaum

We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be…

— Andre Maurois

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat…

— Alice Waters

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people…

— Frank Gehry

I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if…

— Jesy Nelson

I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was…

— Patti Smith

As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them…

— Dolph Lundgren

I never took a path that was the usual path for someone in my generation. A lot of the women who I…

— Mazie Hirono

I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood…

— Johnny Reid

Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I…

— Sophia Takal

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in…

— Paul Krugman

Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it…

— Keith Devlin

“You ought to go to a boys' school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do…

— Anonymous

The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.

— Emmanuel Jal

“School has ruined cinema.It's official. There's nothing worth living for.”

— Stephanie Perkins

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

— Deepak Chopra

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

— Dave Eggers

Being able to be one of the headline bands on Warped Tour was a dream I had since I was in middle…

— Andy Biersack

I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.

— Kathleen Kennedy

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

— Geoffrey Canada

I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school

— Jason Biggs

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

— Madison Pettis

When I left college, nobody expected much of me - and nor did I.

— John Rocha

If school isn't a place to sleep, then home isn't a place to study!!

— Anonymous

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

— Anonymous

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

— Chris Lilley

“Yeah. I failed R&R in school. I was too busy studying for my anal retention classes.”

— Rosanna Leo

“Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know where ya are we' lasses”

— Gervase Phinn