School Quotes · Page 230

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

— Gautam Adani

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

— Powers Boothe

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 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

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher…

— Al Sharpton

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to…

— Frank Gehry

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best…

— Jay Nixon

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands.…

— Pipilotti Rist

The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the…

— Henry Miller

I wanted to choose the school where I want to send my kids to. So that's the way I got into politics.…

— Michelle Steel

When I wasn't wrestling, I got back into school a little bit. In Dallas, there was VIP Wrestling, and in Atlanta, AR…

— Cody Rhodes

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

— Andy Hargreaves

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East.…

— Winona LaDuke

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have…

— Julia Glass

I worry that the weakness - particularly of our public schools - is going to make that less and less true for…

— Condoleezza Rice

When I was in elementary school, I thought the Candyman was a real thing that was happening to everyone, especially because it…

— Nia DaCosta

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the…

— Holly Sklar

Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden…

— Alice Waters

I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up…

— Mark Hoppus

My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me…

— Jonathan Ames

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

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

— Stephen D. Krashen

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 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

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

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

— Tom Clancy

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

— Martin Freeman

At some high schools, you're the star player, and everything revolves around you.

— Sue Bird

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

— Terry Pratchett

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

— Cyhi the Prynce