School Quotes · Page 132

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

— Anonymous

People feel like they know me, in a strange way, like they grew up with me or they went to high school…

— Kellie Martin

I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.

— Lee Unkrich

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

— Scott Turow

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

— Tom Clancy

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I love St. John's Prep as a school. I like the people there, it's a great school.

— Pat Connaughton

I grew up loving country music from a young age and wanted to sing more than I wanted to sit in school.

— Carly Pearce

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law…

— Rebel Wilson

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain…

— James S. Coleman

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so its probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

— Zak Orth

I've always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. I had pictures of space up in my room way…

— Christina Koch

The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working…

— Quinn Shephard

My job is making sure that every child gets a good school place. If there is a particular disadvantage to a community,…

— Angela Rayner

In grade school, my mother, who was a professional tailor, would make all my clothes. I became obsessed with designing them myself.

— Anastasia Soare

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way.…

— David Small

The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially…

— Walter Kaufmann

The fact is that we wouldn't have found out about Manzanar except in our story-telling because it was really never told in…

— Tamlyn Tomita

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the…

— Patrick J. Adams

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character…

— Pete Earley

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography…

— Sam Abell

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind…

— Beatrice Sparks

When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or…

— Hima Das

My goal was like to play in the NBA. I didn't want to leave my country, my people, my friends - even…

— Zaza Pachulia

“Backstage passes at a middle school choir concert. I hang with a crew who knows how to live.”

— Hannah Johnson

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

— Busy Philipps

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

— Maxine Peake

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

— Les Dawson

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

— Devon Sawa

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

— Karl Marx

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

— Peter Thiel

I was in elementary school, going to school knowing Rick James, Aretha Franklin, way before my time.

— Inspectah Deck

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.

— Toni Basil

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

— Lewis Schiff

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

— Powers Boothe

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

— Gautam Adani

Every year since culinary school I have made a Buche de Noel, or Yule Log.

— Claire Saffitz

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

— Ninette de Valois