My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands.… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
When I wasn't wrestling, I got back into school a little bit. In Dallas, there was VIP Wrestling, and in Atlanta, AR… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
I wanted to choose the school where I want to send my kids to. So that's the way I got into politics.… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I love coming back to Wisconsin. Lambeau Field is such a special place - a lot different than the old city stadium… — Bart Starr Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools… — Andrew Card Copy Share Image
My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a… — Ruth Ann Minner Copy Share Image
In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
“Our deepest concern shouldn't be Just the kids who can't go to school, but those who are going and not getting proper… — Samer Chidiac Copy Share Image
Gegard Mousasi is much more old school than a lot of UFC fans might recognise. We actually shared an opponent, Akihiro Gono,… — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
I don't know nothing about the restaurant business, but I've been around a barber shop all my life. That's where I used… — Larry Johnson Copy Share Image
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person.… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and… — Katie Leung Copy Share Image
I used to do drugs in high school. I've been living in L.A. for almost 10 years, and shortly after I arrived… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.'… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing.… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
I still DJ the same way, but I'm not a scratch-scratch-scratch battle DJ. No, I'll rock the house. I'm old school. — DJ Yella Copy Share Image
I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
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