I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents made a lot of sacrifices for my brother and I to go to private school and to attend… — Marcus Mariota Copy Share Image
President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
At eight or nine I passed the exam for Notting Hill and Ealing High, a private school. I had an assisted place;… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Forest Grove was ideal, cool at night and just warm enough in the afternoon, with Mount Hood’s majestic snowcapped peak visible in… — John Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school,… — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I… — Peter Jones Copy Share Image
When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school… — Avi Copy Share Image
I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
If someone has money, they can put their child in a private school, paying tens of thousands of dollars for tuition. But… — Bill Cassidy Copy Share Image
Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think private school is much better at customer service and making the parents feel better, especially in Los Angeles. It's almost… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags… — Alicia Coppola Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If a parent wants to choose where their kid goes to school, they can either fork over a whole bunch of money… — Amelia Warren Tyagi Copy Share Image
When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know… — Wendi Deng Murdoch Copy Share Image
“But at Aglionby, there were no failing grades. If you dropped below a B average, you were out on your ass. And… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think I can adapt quite easily from having a Spanish mother and an English dad and growing up in both places.… — Ana Mulvoy-Ten Copy Share Image
You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it… — Charlayne Hunter-Gault Copy Share Image
School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
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