Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“There are lots of things that never go by rule, There’s a powerful pile o’ knowledge That you never get at college,… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
“The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me… — Bob Sanders Copy Share Image
The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that… — Barry Lane Copy Share Image
It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St.… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
“For almost twenty-five years, we tracked the life progress of 790 children who began first grade in the fall of 1982 in… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
A lonely world, a lonely girl, one lonely life where she tries to fit in. At school she feels like a fool… — Slowly_fading Copy Share Image
The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now I feel like they… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
I was awkward in school. I didn't really fit in with any kind of crowd in school. I didn't have a lot… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There's a lot of pressure to chitchat with the audience. But when they're in school, people don't want to get up in… — Hope Sandoval Copy Share Image
“Last year, millions of students didn’t graduate from high school. They didn’t drop out, they were simply in elementary and middle schools.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you're entering your first year of higher education, then you also need to prepare for an extreme lifestyle change. Your mom's… — Sean Evans Copy Share Image
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“It is up to the school more than anything else to work against barbarism. ... By barbarism, I do not mean the Beatles.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I loved being a student more than being in school. I was kind of the nerd type; I was more into my… — Tamera Mowry Copy Share Image
It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center - provide its children with… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
When I'm 18 I don't get any more school time on set, so you only have a limited time to do it.… — Amybeth McNulty Copy Share Image
At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to… — Karl Malone Copy Share Image
Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking… — Allen West Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you're answering a test question and the answer is so obvious, you actually doubt yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too,… — Joseph Mazzello Copy Share Image
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I… — Albert Gubay Copy Share Image
I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and… — Dan Povenmire Copy Share Image
![“The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I have to give you some advice, the most important thing is: the sooner you become your own best friend, the better your life will be,’” quote by Diane von Furstenberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/659/diane-von-furstenberg-1664_advice_the-other-day-i-went-to-a-school-in-harl_2778674.jpg)
![“[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth,"…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8a7/anonymous-1_communication_in-geology-as-in-history-the-material-in_22470.jpg)
