School Quotes · Page 606

Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: 'Smile, do well in school, don't take too many risks.'

— Kimberly Bryant

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

— Brenton Thwaites

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

— Johann Lamont

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high…

— Joe Scarborough

We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people…

— Sasha Abramsky

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than…

— Charles William Eliot

I was a terror since the public school era. Bathroom passes, cutting classes, squeezing a--es.

— Biggie Smalls

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

— Ivan Illich

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song.…

— Kaytranada

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly…

— Emily Dickinson

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They…

— Michelle Bachelet

My goals for my career are a couple of Pro Bowls, a Super Bowl. I never won a championship in college or…

— James Conner

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in…

— Allan Houston

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to…

— Henry Green

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and…

— Jonathan Brandis

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous…

— Jill Stein

There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly…

— Henry Giroux

As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The school I attended, Bedales, was fortunate to have been built by a leading light from the Arts and Crafts Movement in…

— David Linley

If I could bring my bed too school I would, fuck the world.

— Anonymous

When I was in rehearsal in drama school, I would speak things in meter and then never do it again.

— Adrian Lester

In high school I was worried about singing in a choir not being a cool thing, like "I want girls to like…

— Adam DeVine

If I could remember school work like I remember lyrics I'd be a genius.

— Anonymous

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and…

— Jonathan Kozol

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from…

— George Mason

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

— Amy Poehler

I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough…

— Kanye West

I never sat any exams at school. Our family situation meant that as soon as I was able to go out and…

— John Virgo

Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power…

— Orson Scott Card

I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was…

— Tess Gerritsen

I started school in the autumn term of 1949 when there was a tomato glut. We had tomatoes in every form known…

— David Starkey

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious…

— Thomas Jefferson

In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.

— Geri Halliwell

The reason why access to facilities - and access to public spaces - is so important is because it's much more difficult…

— Sarah McBride

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

— Andy Hargreaves

That Awkward moment when it's the first day of school you quietly enter the classroom and everyone stares at you.

— Anonymous

A lot of comedy on television has a reserve to it, and it's a little too cool for school.

— Jessica St. Clair

When you are a high school kid playing in a NBA arena, you're just so excited because one day you hope to…

— Aaron Gordon

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also…

— Kaya Scodelario

America has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation. We're a serious debtor nation. And we have a country that needs new roads,…

— Donald Trump