School Quotes · Page 168

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

— Gil Scott-Heron

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

— John Engler

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

— Barack Obama

I just hated school. I dont like to learn. Dont teach me anything!

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

— Mary Quant

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

— Aisling Bea

When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

— Eoin Colfer

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

In high school, you re either a bully, a jock or a nerd, and I somehow tried to jump between camps by…

— David Hewlett

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I…

— Ariel Pink

The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of…

— John Golden

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course…

— Karan Patel

When I got outta school, I didn't know what I was gonna do with my life. I knew I didn't have much…

— Chris Farley

When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in…

— Daniel H. Pink

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

— Annie Dillard

My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I…

— Thomas Jones

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them…

— Sebastian Thrun

Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about…

— Alison Lurie

Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I did the plays in middle school. I was cast as a gate in my fourth grade play, and every year I…

— Lucas Hedges

I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I…

— Edgar Wright

I didn't have many friends. I was very shy ... And, then, even worse, when I was 14 I became Gothic. I…

— Riccardo Tisci

I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation…

— Evan Glodell

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a…

— Colin Jost

When in school, I was interested in many things other than studies.

— Rajiv Menon

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

— Jimmy Breslin

“One school's king is another school's target practice.”

— Kim Askew

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

— Gerald Green

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

— Dave Matthews

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

— Mickey Rooney

In high school, it was NEH-gee. In college, it was NAG-ee. Now we don't know what it is.

— Matt Nagy

When I was kid, I used to think that high school was like how it is in the movies.

— Anonymous

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

— Ludwig von Mises

I was always interested in law at school; it was a great outlet to argue but not make anyone angry!

— Sasha Jackson

School was very important to me ,and music was what kept me coming back.

— Darius Rucker

I actually almost made a million dollars while in high school.

— Nathan Blecharczyk

You learn about the Battle of Hastings. What's that going to do for somebody when they leave school?

— Kerry Katona

When you walk down the hallway at school, and try to avoid making eye contact with people.

— Anonymous

Teacher: DO YOU WANNA SPEND LUNCH IN MY CLASS !? Student: Are You Asking Me Out?

— L