School Quotes · Page 201

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

— Elizabeth George

I come from a place where people get high, the grades get low and if someone has a secret everybody knows.

— Wiz Khalifa

I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.

— Jonas Blue

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

— Alex Chiu

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

— Pope John XXIII

I didn't have a school life like everyone else because I started working at a young age. That's what I regret.

— Shin Min-a

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

— Travis Barker

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

— Alfie Allen

As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures,…

— Miriam A. Ferguson

Working on the ABC movie 'Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige,'' which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Dear teacher, putting all the smart people in one group is NOT fair at all, sincerely, failing and in need of the…

— Anonymous

If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right…

— Maisie Williams

Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to…

— Allison Janney

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send…

— Wangari Maathai

You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.

— Kaya Scodelario

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary…

— Andrew Young

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure…

— Kevin Rudd

Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And…

— Henry Giroux

I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the…

— Zachary Quinto

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good…

— Jack McDevitt

I was inspired to shoot 'Look Back at It' in a high school because I'm like a voice of the youth. When…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot…

— Viswanathan Anand

I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that…

— Jim Jarmusch

I don't walk down the street like, "I'm famous." It's still weird to me when people ask for pictures. My close friends…

— Bella Hadid

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

— Imran Khan

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

— Jeff Kinney

[Sandy] Kress says [Betsy] DeVos's record on school choice in Michigan sealed the deal.

— Claudio Sanchez

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

— Bo Jackson

I know that several times before, I've bought football uniforms for my old high school.

— Sisqo

I didn't really enter into the real world until I was probably at drama school.

— Freddie Fox

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools

— Bob Riley

I went and worked for my dad after school. I'd show up late and stuff like that.

— Chris Farley

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say…

— Tatyana Ali

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

— Shaun Ryder

On a math test: 2+2 = ? Me: *I'll use calculator just in case*

— Anonymous

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

— Ogden Nash

When you graduate from high school, you also graduate from wearing a letterman jacket...forever.

— Anonymous

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

— John Lasseter

Maybe high school would have been a good time to have a little Dylan McKay in my life.

— Desi Lydic

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

— Ryan Eggold