School Quotes · Page 107

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

— Ben Cohen

“A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

— Helen Herron Taft

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

— Diablo Cody

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

— Jonah Lomu

“what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

— Krzysztof Piatek

I'd hardly seen any movies when I was 19 and left drama school.

— Eileen Atkins

I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on…

— Liam Cunningham

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was…

— Jon Gordon

Super blessed to be in the position I'm in. To be able to inspire people to do what I'm doing and choose…

— Murda Beatz

School is a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was…

— Boy George

In the first year, I wanted to skip college and get out, because I couldn't do it! But gradually, I got the…

— Sargun Mehta

All of my friends and a lot of kids at school know what I do. It's really something that's a big deal…

— Mary Cain

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that…

— Vartan Gregorian

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is…

— Ellen Hopkins

Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual…

— Thomas Metzinger

Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One…

— Rosie O'Donnell

“Thus, to the extent that education is driven by signaling rather than learning, it’s more of a competition than a cooperative activity…

— Kevin Simler

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled…

— India de Beaufort

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I…

— Snoop Dogg

Education is the lifeline of the city of Boston in a lot of ways, as far as preparing and educating young people…

— Marty Walsh

At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash…

— H. L. Mencken

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

— Gerard Way

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

— Stephen Rodrick

School is like a boner. It's long and hard, unless you're Asian.

— Anonymous

You learn something new about people everyday wether its in school or out.

— Anonymous

“One year ago I left my home for school and never returned.”

— Malala Yousafzai

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and…

— Natalie Babbitt

I had boyfriends in high school, and then I dated guys and girls, so I guess for a long time I was…

— Da Brat

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

— Bill Gates

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

— Woody Allen

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

— Peter De Vries

I always thought I wasn't cool enough in school, I was in the 'nerd' crew. I actually enjoyed studying.

— Laura Whitmore

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.

— Tom Ford

I dont think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.

— Matthew Morrison

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

— Terry Pratchett