In my lifetime, it's the Supreme Court, not Congress, that integrated our public schools, that allowed people of different races to marry,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN'T harassed?… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
When I finally addressed my stuttering - I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
I would call universities and community colleges and say, 'I really want to go to college. How do I get to college?… — Susan Fowler Copy Share Image
School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
“The teacher, Mrs. Jennings...makes us sit in a circle. An elementary school, duck-duck-goose-style circle. This affords each of us the best possible… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I… — James McBride Copy Share Image
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be.… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science,… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed… — Bojana Novakovic Copy Share Image
[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense… — Ian Dunbar Copy Share Image
After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but… — Zoe Sugg Copy Share Image
Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I'm not very nostalgic, you see. I just don't think anybody has that kind of thing anymore. By culture, by breeding, by… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your future, listen,… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
Being 1 of 6 made me a weirdo in school. We were like the von Trapps, and our house was like the… — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade.… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image