I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball,… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn't handle them. Couldn't… — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
Education is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of life much… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I put an octopus in aquarium, and it would eat the others. But if you put an octopus in with a school… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
Americans are clearly more afraid than at any time since 9/11. In Los Angeles, 650 schoolchildren didn't go to - 650,000 schoolchildren… — Wolf Blitzer Copy Share Image
At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Stigma hurts. Because of AIDS, children are bullied, isolated and shut out of school. They are missing out on education. They are… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
I am honored to serve on the Board of Visitors for Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Being the first board member… — Ricardo Salinas Pliego Copy Share Image
I always think, what I would have thought of something like Gurls Talk would have come into my school? Or how would… — Adwoa Aboah Copy Share Image
I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris.… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Commenting on the decisions of the Bowl Alliance regarding WAC teams: It's a step, no question. Obviously, it's not what any of… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake… — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to intern at 'Teen Vogue' from the moment the first issue hit newsstands. Luckily, the team at… — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
“You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school.… — Brian Littrell Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year.… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, high school is just…The. Worst.” “Funny that you became a high school teacher, then,” I say, and she laughs again. “Something… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
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