School Quotes · Page 279

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under…

— Chelsea Cain

But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about…

— Shane Claiborne

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

— Ian Bremmer

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in…

— Raj Chetty

The hit rap duo Kris Kross wore their trousers backwards, in the Nineties, and I wore my trousers backwards to a school…

— Russell Howard

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to…

— Indya Moore

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

My father taught me to study, study, study hard and he sent me to a very good Jewish school even though it…

— Ruth Westheimer

I have white friends who have the Confederate flag on their license plates, and I have no issue with that if they…

— Killer Mike

Not caring what people think about you is so much easier said than done and I think that it's easy to be…

— Camila Cabello

One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are…

— Nicholas Lemann

It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children…

— John F. Kennedy

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at…

— Anonymous

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go…

— Adepero Oduye

I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school…

— George Ogilvie

“They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're…

— Gordon Korman

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was…

— Lesley Nicol

I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a…

— Tracy K. Smith

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always…

— Josie Loren

We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I deeply love the students that I serve. I tried to do anything in my power to give them additional resources and…

— Jamaal Bowman

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be…

— Scott Ian

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into…

— Ian Mckellen

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into…

— Deborah Reber

Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they…

— Benjamin Hart

There's been a lot of coaches, a lot of guys at Stanford, a lot of guys at my high school. A lot…

— Robin Lopez

I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this.

— Millicent Simmonds

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly…

— Steve Earle

I ended up going to public school in the first grade, and that's when I knew I had to be very strategic…

— Carmen Carrera

I feel like in my senior year of high school, I had my clothes a lot more figured out. I had my…

— Emma Gonzalez

I was never into drama and theatre in school, so I never participated in Christmas skits that were often a part of…

— Gautam Rode

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented…

— Rick Perry

I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing…

— Stephen Curry

My school have been so supportive in the balance between my sport and my studying, ever since I won the two golds…

— Ellie Simmonds

You can't sign up for this kind of wrestling in school, so I went the football route first and I was successful…

— Mojo Rawley

I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have…

— Kaya Scodelario

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school,…

— Barbra Streisand

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics,…

— Leon M. Lederman

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

— James Dyson

I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves…

— John Lewis