School Quotes · Page 232

I was a huge prog rock fan as a kid in high school, and I'm so thankful for that.

— Tim Commerford

I come from a place when people get high grades get low and if yo have a secret everybody knows.

— Tamika-leeigh

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

— Aya Cash

H.o.m.e.w.o.r.k = Half of my energy wasted on random knowledge

— Anonymous

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

— Jodi Picoult

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

— Dan Fogelberg

In college and high school, you're always taught to hit the ball on the ground and on a line.

— Alex Bregman

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

— Robert A. Burton

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

— Patrick Wilson

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run…

— William Howard Taft

Since I was 15 or 16 years old, my grandfather was my high school football coach and my life's been ball. Dinners…

— Jason Witten

Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We…

— Anne Murray

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college…

— Amber Heard

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where…

— Rob Paulsen

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the…

— Chris Crutcher

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

— Ami Bera

I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a…

— Sarah Palin

Well, growing up in LA, things are kind of thrust in front of you. You're almost forced to grow up pretty fast,…

— Sarah Hudson

It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life…

— Emma Watson

I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy.…

— Robin Tunney

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would…

— Penelope Cruz

In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I…

— Julia Holter

I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of…

— Frank Miller

If Twitter, YouTube and Google were part of my school subjects, my parents would be so proud of me.

— Anonymous

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

— Lara Stone

We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips!

— Robert Pattinson

Athletics is the mother of all sport and every child must try out it once during his school days.

— Milkha Singh

I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a…

— Mickie James

I was in the eighth standard and was selected as part of my school to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

When I think of my high school days, the song that I think about is Deana Carter's 'Strawberry Wine.'

— Lainey Wilson

I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.

— Jay Duplass

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

— Peyton List

I went through my entire public school career going to bed crying because I was getting Ds.

— Eric Adams

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group

— Shane West

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

— Dave Eggers

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

— Chris Rock

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

— Carl Hiaasen

I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid