School Quotes · Page 257

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

— Ron Paul

My mind was never into school, and education did not matter to me.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your…

— Seneca the Younger

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

— Gary Clark, Jr

The reason why am here it's because mum and sent me to school to Facebook!!!

— Paperboi

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

— Michael Jackson

I finally chopped off my ponytail at the end of middle school, and it was the best decision I made.

— Amber Liu

School cricket is where we all start. The journey of a cricketer starts from there, and it was the same for me.

— Prithvi Shaw

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I…

— Evan Williams

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing…

— Pat Buchanan

I was like a closet makeup fiend as a little girl because I knew that I would be guffawed at in school…

— Grace Potter

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time…

— John Irving

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,…

— Elliott Abrams

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive… our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages -…

— Peter Drucker

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably…

— Bob Balaban

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing…

— Wayne LaPierre

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential.…

— Dianne Feinstein

One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the…

— Amartya Sen

When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old…

— Adolf Hitler

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that…

— Noah Baumbach

What we had on was BBC Asian Network and Bollywood sound-tracks - they were my reference points. But of course, where I…

— Himesh Patel

The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody…

— Anthony Mackie

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that…

— Serge Schmemann

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.

— Robbie Coltraine

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

— Matthew Lewis

The old school in me knows how to get over and get other guys over. I'm going to continue to do it.

— Randy Orton

First day filming...Feels like the first recess/Break time at the a new school.

— Idris Elba

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

— Greg Brenneman

I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.

— Kimberly Bryant

I was quite old school and religious, keeping all my fasts and would prefer to spend my time in temples.

— Supriya Pathak

I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

— Natalia Vodianova

If you want to go to a school with lower requirements, it doesn't diminish the education.

— Booger McFarland

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

— Saul Bellow

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

— Adam Lambert

I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

— Matt Dillon

Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.

— Toyah Willcox

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

— Ambrose Bierce

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

— Stark Sands

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

— Julie Chen