School Quotes · Page 171

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

— Jackie DeShannon

That awkward moment when the teacher says slaves…and everyone looks at that one black kid in the class.

— Anonymous

Am I hopeless, raised with rats and roaches. Never liked the teachers, couldn't stand my coaches.

— J Cole

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

— Louis Sachar

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

— Jim Benton

“Most of what they currently learn at school will probably be irrelevant by the time they are forty.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

It wasn't until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally.

— Johnny Christ

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

— Skeet Ulrich

I read 'Backstage' a lot when I first was unleashed into the world from drama school. And what was great about it…

— Phillipa Soo

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm…

— Katy B

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel…

— Rahul Dravid

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a…

— Kate DiCamillo

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high…

— Rick Perry

Neither my MFA from Yale School of Drama nor my BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University…

— Amanda Warren

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until…

— Brian Eno

When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when…

— Lupe Fiasco

My advice to young people everywhere: Choose schools that encourage self-discovery early on. Don't be afraid to buck convention. And when someone…

— Jedediah Bila

It was all kind of a whirlwind at the beginning. I didn't really realize that I had a special gift from God.…

— Allyson Felix

I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into…

— Scott Speedman

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me…

— Anonymous

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes…

— Evelyn Underhill

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and…

— Sharon Stone

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular…

— Herb Ritts

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

— Syd

Serengeti Trek Vacation Bible School 05, where kids are wild about God!.

— Christopher Cross

Daydreaming while you're reading, then having to re-read what you just read.

— Anonymous

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

— Miranda Otto

I did a lot of theatre in school and loved performing in front of people.

— Athiya Shetty

I run my wrestling school, SyDojo, I do independent wrestling events all over the world.

— Matt Sydal

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

— Jason Terry

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

— Gaby Hoffmann

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

— Nick Cave

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.

— Jeannette Walls

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

— Marin Hinkle

“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

— Ken Robinson

I come from a film background as I studied film at art school.

— Bonobo

All of my coaches, from high school to AAU and college, helped me learn and get better.

— Tobias Harris

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

— Diane Ackerman