“Grade school – elementary and up – is like being dropped in a dunk tank filled with starving piranha. And they never get full.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior… The mere fact that a school… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school.… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try… — David Niven Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder. On the pathetic scale, where would I land? I know other kids my age would go to the mall… — Lynda Mullaly Hunt Copy Share Image
“Anyone can put a price on knowledge - schools and universities do it all the time, but no one can put a… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
We engage in the public institutions of work and school and club and team, because it is there that we find meaning… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Nice girls at school whose fathers owned a Volvo were unapproachable and probably condemned to spinsterhood for all time, simply because no… — James May Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in… — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
The only thing that got me through high school was learning not to care what other people think, are they gonna matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I… — Winston Duke Copy Share Image
“What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Cal Poly is my kind of school. So many universities I visit boast about boring alumni like pioneering surgeons and Olympic athletes.… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The first day ofschool was always so exciting because you get new shoes and a new backpack, but by the last day… — Meaghan Martin Copy Share Image
Apart from having heart surgery as a baby, I had a pretty normal upbringing. I attended mainstream school and did gymnastics and… — Madeline Stuart Copy Share Image
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching,… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
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