School Quotes · Page 162

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

— Ray Kurzweil

When I have a boyfriend, I have an actual reason to put my best dressed skills to the test

— Anonymous

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

— Rick Springfield

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

— Jane Haddam

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

— Stevie Wonder

When I was in school, before age 10 I hated any kind of sport.

— Abhinav Bindra

My memory of high school is people telling me that I'd miss it when it's gone.

— Jamie Demetriou

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

— MC Paul Barman

Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics…

— Anonymous

Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.

— John Waters

A lot of former players always say that college is a great basketball experience. The fans, going to school, being on campus...…

— Andrew Wiggins

It is my opinion that a local school board cannot impose a mandatory fee on students taking advanced placement courses for the…

— Ken Cuccinelli

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that…

— Nina Simone

The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is…

— Jillian Hervey

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was…

— Keith Haring

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Imagine 4 years. Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one abortion), three overdoses, countless drunken antics, pantsings, spilled…

— Courtney Summers

John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which…

— Michael Palin

The '60s and '70s - I grew up in the Haight-Ashbury - people around me were going to school by day and…

— Naomi Wolf

When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I…

— Jon Scieszka

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater…

— Audra McDonald

I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among…

— Johnny Cash

I was taking fed chances fresh outta high school, Telling h*es that's stuck up

— Dougboyz Cashout

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

— Nancy Pearcey

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.

— Wayne Knight

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

— Grant Show

School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

— J. Cole

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

— Robert Fulghum

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

— Bill Walton

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

— Cameron Monaghan

HIGH SCHOOL. It changes people into the person they said they'd never be.

— Anonymous

I've played TaylorMade drivers since I was in high school, so it's a comfortable look for me.

— Xander Schauffele

I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.

— Shemar Moore

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

— Carole Radziwill

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

— Gregory Colbert

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

— Angus Young

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

— David Mitchell

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

— Adam Schiff