School Quotes · Page 243

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

— Denise Van Outen

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

— Lloyd Dorfman

I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

— Malala Yousafzai

I had to decide between doing 'Issaq' and continuing school and I chose 'Issaq.'

— Amyra Dastur

I was a science student in junior college, but I knew I wouldn't pursue a career in the field.

— Mithila Palkar

“Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

— Andy Hargreaves

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

— Donna Brazile

Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that.…

— Caster Semenya

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I am re-collecting the baseball cards my mom had thrown out when I went away to school. You know you are an…

— Fred Willard

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep…

— Meg Cabot

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858,…

— Mary Augusta Ward

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

— Danica McKellar

You know, there's like a boat-load of gangs at this school. This one gang kept wanting me to join because I'm pretty…

— Napoleon Dynamite

I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the…

— Julianne Moore

Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This…

— Sherman Alexie

“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in…

— Daniel Amory

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go…

— Billy Bragg

Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire…

— Ryan Holmes

In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…

— Michael Parenti

There's no publicist, no advertisements, and no one's pushing us. If people are buying our records, it's because big brothers and sisters…

— Spencer Moody

Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have…

— Marianne Williamson

I started playing in school. Lots of kids in Yugoslavia play basketball.

— Vlade Divac

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

— Boots Riley

“Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.”

— John Green

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

— Josh Duhamel

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

— Margaret Spellings

In high school, I didn't have to talk. All I had to say is 'left' or 'right' when a screen was coming.

— Andre Drummond

What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

— Meg Cabot

That facial expression you make when you got paired with the laziest f*cker in class.

— Anonymous

In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

— Young Jeezy

When I get home from school, the first thing I look for is food.

— Anonymous

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.

— Juice Wrld

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

— Danielle Campbell

I went to Locke High School in Watts towards the end of the super gangbanging era.

— Thundercat

I had trouble in high school, and it has really pushed me to do something big and make a difference.

— Taylor Louderman

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

— Leslie Bibb