School Quotes · Page 336

I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't…

— Garrett Clayton

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge…

— Petra Collins

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't…

— Howard Gardner

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

— Lou Barlow

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really…

— Noah Baumbach

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I…

— Cree Summer

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

— Rick Ross

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive…

— Rachael Stirling

It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physically - because, I didn't get…

— Charlyne Yi

When people think the issue can be solved, it becomes a moral imperative to be part of the solution. We can do…

— Wendy Kopp

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,…

— Hilary Mantel

As a member of the State Board of Education, I have been a part of meetings concerning new standards for our public…

— Mark Robinson

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores…

— Kenneth Keniston

I was a religious 'SNL' watcher all through middle school. I was obsessed with Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri - they…

— Aidy Bryant

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back.…

— Charlie Munger

I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in schools. I had…

— Steven Blum

I was obsessed with Tracey Ullman. I was obsessed with 'In Living Color.' I used to meet up with a friend of…

— Edi Patterson

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And…

— Steve Jobs

I went to several public schools. I went to religious school. I was thrown out of Hebrew school, which was the final…

— Richard Belzer

And bookish people who do their homework and get it in on time and it's good - they don't have friends at…

— Sarah Millican

I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would…

— Tom Wlaschiha

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed…

— Avi

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood…

— Mary Cheney

I remember very vividly going to school, being very happy, and then just having guys there who were just out to make…

— Paul Dini

Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals.…

— Rodney Stark

My father always encouraged me to do whatever I wanted, providing I was happy. He wanted me to go to school, but…

— Gino D'Acampo

My very first school was a primary school in Surrey. I remember being taught to read by the traditional ABC, instead of…

— Prunella Scales

When I left drama school I worked in children's theatre for six months, then went up to the Gateway to do my…

— Geraldine James

There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things…

— Mic Geronimo

I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can…

— Alison Moyet

I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall…

— Leland Stanford

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality…

— Melinda Gates

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a…

— Jeffrey Combs

My dad was the founder of the Little League chapter in Caguas where I'm from, he passed away in 1998, and that's…

— Alex Cora

I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of…

— Rick Riordan

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in…

— Bong Joon-ho

I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was…

— Evan Glodell

I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in…

— Stephanie Beatriz

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

— Ludwig von Mises

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies,…

— Harry Belafonte