School Quotes · Page 270

...and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying…

— Gayle Forman

When I was young we weren't even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it 'vernacular,' as if only…

— Fela Kuti

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.

— Steve Bannon

There was no other concern; there was no other focus [in the Governor's School]. It was simply there to learn and grow…

— Zachary Quinto

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

— Edward Abbey

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom…

— Blake Mycoskie

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he…

— Charles Mingus

I kind of realized I couldn't blow the ball by everybody. In high school I could do that, but now it's not…

— Justin Verlander

I've always just felt like an outsider. I've always been made fun of in school ever since kindergarten. For me, when I…

— Allie X

That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school.…

— Kordell Stewart

We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would…

— Miles Teller

I'm the kid in school who always, you know, got the straight A's. I got to be that, you know, alpha aggressive…

— Shane Black

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after…

— Jane Campion

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush…

— Richelle Mead

When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first…

— Barbi Benton

I know the pride that my whole community had when I got into Harvard. It was as if we had just discovered…

— Ruben Gallego

I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of…

— Ian Mckellen

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good…

— Sanford I. Weill

My love of running developed when I got older. At school it filled me with dread and the idea of running around…

— Freddie Fox

“School is not like church. I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this, but I think that's…

— David Levithan

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who…

— Gary Hamel

I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature…

— Kyle Kuzma

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days…

— Rupert Grint

Though I was into modeling and extracurricular activities in my school days at C.G. High School in Mumbai, I never thought of…

— Amrita Rao

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year…

— Eric Bana

I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top... maybe the top six guys, top…

— Ndamukong Suh

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a…

— Mike Berenstain

My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear's a bit bigger than my left - which showed up particularly in…

— Michael Portillo

I was broke when I had my son. I was working three jobs - I was a server, a janitor at an…

— Jimmie Allen

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had…

— Abraham Verghese

When I got to high school, I was going to do sports, but I got kicked off the volleyball team because I…

— Shanice Williams

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the…

— Emmitt Smith

“By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart”

— Ben Mitchell

I'm in favour of the old roles being blurred. The old division at school where the boys did metalwork and woodwork and…

— James May

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study…

— Ginger Zee

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and…

— Billy West

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying…

— Gary Sheffield

I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me…

— Steve Harvey