School Quotes · Page 231

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

— Ty Pennington

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

— Juan Gabriel

I want to be the leader of the youth. Leader of the new school.

— Kodie Shane

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

— John King

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

— Ray Winstone

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

— Adam Weishaupt

After graduating from Stanford business school, I was working at McKinsey, crunching numbers for spreadsheets.

— Doug Burgum

I always tell people that I went through long hair. I was a typical art school scruff. It was good then.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“This book is not about "homeschooling" at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a…

— Elizabeth Foss

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it…

— John D'Agata

The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.

— Peter Hoagland

I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.

— Christine Blasey Ford

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with…

— Alex Lifeson

You'd assume I was being bullied a tonne at school and it was horrible, but in reality, I really was getting bullied…

— Lizzie Velasquez

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s…

— Billy Childish

By the time I graduated from high school, though, I was in a bit of a rebellious phase towards everything I had…

— Pauline Chalamet

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say…

— Faith Ford

The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves…

— Heber J. Grant

There's certain classes you have to take, certain things you have to do, certain money you must have. Then, if you listen…

— Snoop Dogg

Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to…

— Big Sean

I started to understand how important it was for me to make my own name pretty early on after years of noticing…

— Chris Eubank Jr

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my…

— Brooke Shields

I loved it. I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I…

— Alice Smith

I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

“A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was bullied mercilessly through school for my weight problem.

— Craig Revel Horwood

“Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.”

— George Carlin

“Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing can happen to a great mind.”

— Ken Robinson Ph.D

I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.'

— Camila Morrone

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on…

— Kevin Rahm

Before I turned 18, I had all these rules. Like, I could only work ten hours a day, and I had to…

— Morgan Saylor

I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

— Kyle Korver

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

— Nikki Giovanni

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

— Essie Davis

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

— Deborah Harkness

Don't drink milk on your way to school they will punish you the hard way trust me

— Julia Nkandi

When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.

— Cate Blanchett

God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

— Gene Edwards

I never went to school wanting to play cute characters or girly characters.

— Emily Beecham