School Quotes · Page 565

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and…

— Sanford I. Weill

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters…

— Wolf Blitzer

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

— Christine O'Donnell

I was that kid who did every activity when I was in high school. There wasn't a day that I didn't stay…

— Chris Gethard

“Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack…

— Junot Díaz

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

— Edwidge Danticat

I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of…

— Dolly Parton

My first media interview was when I was a high school freshman and I was set to compete at state champs. The…

— Michelle Carter

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in…

— Paul Krugman

I didn't have very many friends growing up. I was very much a nerd. I read comic books, and I wanted to…

— Xavier Woods

I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got…

— Zachary Quinto

School teaches us more than merely the three Rs. It teaches us about life: how to get along with other people, follow…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or…

— Jim James

I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My…

— Anna Funder

I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror…

— Jonathan Levine

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of…

— Sydney Brenner

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as…

— Immanuel Kant

I know what it feels like to be one of those conservative rugby lads because I went to a similar school growing…

— Nicholas Galitzine

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

— Rod Paige

Maybe when we were shooting in the school, I was feeling more like it. Every time I go back to a school…

— Judy Greer

I've been inside the Anne Frank house. You've only read about Anne Frank in grade school. I've been in it. I've seen…

— Shawn Crahan

I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That's why I…

— Hillary Clinton

I didn't drink in high school, and neither did any of my boyfriends.

— Emily Giffin

College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

— Paul McAllister

Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

— Fred Korematsu

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

— Sufjan Stevens

Me and my friends in high school were the only girls who went to hardcore shows. It was three of us, and…

— Kathleen Hanna

I go to public school, which is nice because that's where I can go to be Darci, and when I perform, I'm…

— Darci Lynne Farmer

I'm looking through old things of mine, and there was this binder from when I was 14 years old. It is essentially…

— Teyonah Parris

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

— Ludwig von Mises

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think…

— Gideon Rachman

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to…

— Caroline Ghosn

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go…

— Kate Moss

If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be…

— Dana Goldstein

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…

— Fisher Ames

“They said that you would never make it, but you did. They said that you would quit, but you persevered and fought…

— Stephanie Lahart

It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now…

— Peter Breggin

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you…

— George W. Bush

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke…

— Paul Dalio