School Quotes · Page 230

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

— Douglas Coupland

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

— Sophie Dahl

“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Keep healthy. The longer you live, the smaller the fraction of your life was spent in school.”

— C.C. Phillips

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

— Nat Hentoff

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

— Steven Tyler

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

— Jim Rohn

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

— Steven Soderbergh

Then, in high school, I had a kind of mental breakdown; I didn't want to go to school anymore. It felt pointless.…

— Michelle Zauner

Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music.…

— Ruben Studdard

I did high school wrestling. I was first in the state of Florida and ninth in the nation in folkstyle. Freestyle and…

— Lacey Evans

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight,…

— Christa McAuliffe

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it…

— Brandi Chastain

I wound up graduating from the Los Angeles County School for the Arts as a theatre major and then was honored to…

— Josh Groban

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family…

— Aesop Rock

I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or…

— Jim James

My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in…

— Ed Weeks

I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I…

— Takeo Spikes

This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make…

— Immanuel Kant

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who…

— Barack Obama

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school…

— Marley Dias

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant…

— Dorothy Allison

There was a race that I was running in Mexico City and I was the only high school athlete running against grown…

— Allyson Felix

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

— Jessica-Jane Applegate

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

— Pope Clement I

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

— Yao Ming

“How one lives during limited time on earth's school is perhaps how one may dwell in the space of eternity.”

— T.F. Hodge

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

— Joshua Chamberlain

I was pretty smart in school in terms of grades and stuff. I just got the bug to do music.

— Jax Jones

People have called me Ha Ha since I was in elementary school, so that's just what it's been.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

— Cheryl Lynn

“You've already got that full-ride science scholarship.”

— Stacy Claflin

I did athletics when I was at school. I ran the 100 meters but I got beat once so stopped doing it.

— Daniel James

Tomorrow is a new beginning, new school year, new friends and new memories!

— Anonymous

I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'

— Megyn Price

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

— James Payn

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

— Brooklyn Decker

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

— Kristin Kreuk

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

— Adam Brody