I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved… — Jason Kilar Copy Share Image
I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
I remember in 'The Wizard of Oz' in middle school, I was the Tin Man. There was this fly on stage, and… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“Insomnia I cannot get to sleep tonight. I toss and turn and flop. I try to count some fluffy sheep while o'er… — Kathy Kenney-Marshall Copy Share Image
When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a very simple woman. She didn't want a whole lot. My grandmother wanted to go to church and Sunday… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
League of Legends' is banned in my house and rightly so. It is just awful. In the past, I've been staying up… — Neil Robertson Copy Share Image
I loved music from a young age. At school I played the violin but I didn't sing much; there was an expectation… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' -… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
My friends and I did one of those 'Who's Hot and Who's Not' lists. Every school has those, and now they are… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go... To… — Charlie Weis Copy Share Image
It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to take classes with Mel Powell at Yale University as well as a semester with Sam Adler at… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Jack, my 16 year old, was in knots a couple of months back, studying for Latin. I said, "Mate, you've got no… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
A really happy kid. I would go off on my own a lot and live in my imagination. When I got my… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
My head works a little faster than people around me sometimes and it can be quite painful. It was a problem for… — Tricky Copy Share Image
I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools.… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
That's a good question. I don't really remember what it was like before. Whatever I had going on, it was bullshit. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image