School Quotes · Page 239

I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.

— Tyler Labine

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

— Noel Redding

I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.

— O. J. Mayo

If you're in high-school and you're not having fun, quit.

— Doug Stanhope

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school…

— Freddie Stroma

My plan for Boston's future begins in our schools - all of our schools.

— Marty Walsh

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

— Theophilus London

“In the end we remember all the students we've gone to school with and invite them to our homes only to find…

— Thomas Bernhard

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think…

— Ethan Embry

We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I cut my wrists in the school bathroom. I have the scars to prove it, Ill never forgive you for not being…

— Anonymous

“They only half-jokingly speculated about whether they were the last two single people from their high school class,”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I…

— Arthur Bremer

On my road to self-discovery, only certain terms were available - I didn't use 'trans' or 'transgender' until junior high school, but…

— Janet Mock

I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is…

— Seth Rogen

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other…

— John McLaughlin

[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He…

— Nat Hentoff

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also…

— Richard Allington

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real…

— Vinny Guadagnino

Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain…

— Nicki Minaj

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I was quite nauseous every day at school - I had some real stomach problems. The thing that saved me was sitting…

— Mary GrandPre

“The industrialized mass nature of school goes back to the very beginning, to the common school and the normal school and the…

— Seth Godin

School is more about taming the human animal than it is about learning

— Anonymous

I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.

— John Schnatter

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

— Kapil Sibal

“One school's king is another school's target practice.”

— Kim Askew

When in school, I was interested in many things other than studies.

— Rajiv Menon

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a…

— Colin Jost

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

— Jimmy Breslin

When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

— Eoin Colfer

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

— Ludwig von Mises

When I was kid, I used to think that high school was like how it is in the movies.

— Anonymous

In high school, it was NEH-gee. In college, it was NAG-ee. Now we don't know what it is.

— Matt Nagy

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

— Dave Matthews

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

— Mickey Rooney

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

— Gerald Green

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

— Gil Scott-Heron