I skipped ninth grade. I went from eighth to tenth, and then I graduated a year early to start working, and it… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I was working out in a gym in Minneapolis and I met this guy named Eddie Sharkey. He had a school there… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality… — Cindy Wright Copy Share Image
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
André and I are still best of friends, always have been and always will be. When our 18-year-old son, Seven, started high… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I was viewed as a little bit of an outcast. I didn't have one group of friends who I hung out with… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Purple has always been my favorite color... but purple, when I was a little kid, was a color that boys weren't really… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
I just felt like actors - I watched a lot of 'SNL,' and those guys just seemed like they were superheroes -… — Max Greenfield Copy Share Image
I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies.… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this… — Mika Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. And in life, not necessarily… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I was in high school if you were black and lived in Detroit, and you wanted to drive down to Florida… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is so important to be active when you are young, and I think it would have helped me tenfold if, alongside… — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he… — Stromae Copy Share Image
So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
There are some people in our state who may choose a different public school because they have the private means to move… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I grew up a Baptist and went to seminary at Methodist school, Duke University, but I also don't worry too much about… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in… — Carl Gardner Copy Share Image
I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
