I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
My friends and I started that motto early in high school - that attitude, that mentality - from way back then: Want… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
“There’s an air of things closing down. Teachers wear shorts and T-shirts to class. They show movies while they clean out their… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I… — Dana Michelle Burnett Copy Share Image
I've always been the same. I've had the same mentality ever since I was playing with my friends at school. I want… — Roberto Mancini Copy Share Image
Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school and our… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human… — Paul Starr Copy Share Image
In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I've always been athletic - I ran track in high school - and it kept my blood pressure in check over the… — Regina King Copy Share Image
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way… — Mack Brown Copy Share Image
My experiences in high school, in which I was used to being unfairly labeled, unfairly maligned, gave me the thick skin that… — Stephen Miller Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with… — Benn Northover Copy Share Image
I was still playing basketball and baseball - everything else I wanted to do as a kid. Modeling was a chance to… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
Here in Los Angeles, school's out for summer. For thousands of school kids, this is the first week of summer vacation. And… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I've always been vertically challenged. I never grew at all until my junior year of high school-if you call that growing. — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I… — Earl Monroe Copy Share Image
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
First day of school, walking into class, seeing who's in it & thinking to yourself, 'You've got to be f*cking kidding me.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here.… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional… — Mamata Banerjee Copy Share Image
In Bronxville, New York, we went to public school there, before London. Mother had a great belief in public school. She said… — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had… — Joanna Kulig Copy Share Image
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image