Schools Quotes · Page 5

The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

— Will Rogers

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

— Bill Dedman

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

— Donald L. Carcieri

The two good bad places are prisons and schools.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

— Fanny Jackson Coppin

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

— Erin Gruwell

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

— Davis Guggenheim

The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.

— Sheldon Jackson

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in…

— Rod Blagojevich

We are reading the music from old school, this is why you will never catch or find a lazy student from our…

— Blacksonbeats

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best…

— Jay Nixon

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger…

— Michael Bennet

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

— Brian O'Driscoll

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

— Jonathan Kozol

As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and…

— Anonymous

“Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: "…

— Paul Gauguin

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools.…

— Ridley Scott

There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to…

— Caity Lotz

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had…

— Isla Fisher

I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was…

— Terry Zwigoff

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar…

— Kim Young-ha

The reality of growing up is we changed schools so many times, my brother was my best friend. We have a five-year…

— Wladimir Klitschko

To help the parents make the choice of which school to send their child to, I would insist that schools are graded…

— Mitt Romney

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being…

— Ken Ham

I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

— Adam DeVine

Entrepreneurship is just one thing that needs to be in schools.

— Theo Paphitis

We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.

— Shiv Nadar

“Watu wanahitaji elimu na ajira kuwaepusha na janga la madawa ya kulevya.”

— Enock Maregesi

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

— Richard Simmons

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

— Tim Rice

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

— Anonymous

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

— Roddy Doyle

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

— Henry Mancini

“Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

— Timothy Leary

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

— Letitia James

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

— Andy Hargreaves

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

— Amy Klobuchar

We will not stop until our schools are the safest in the nation.

— Chris Sununu

Too many of our children are being left behind, especially in our inner city schools.

— Damian Green