When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The idea behind 'NecroFusion' came about when Praga Khan of Lords of Acid contacted me after I started making a bunch of… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
When I first started playing basketball, my coordination was horrible! I went into high school at 6 feet and left at 6-7… — Brittney Griner Copy Share Image
I, too, was bullied to pieces - I just didn't exist well, so I was a good target. And I spent a… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19,… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, Movement Conservatives created a cast of villains. The Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and President Eisenhower's use of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
The first rules about Islamic law weren't even written down for a century and a half after the Prophet's death, and it… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Some of you think that attending a top business school gives you an advantage. Others think that street smarts and hands-on experience… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
He turned, throwing over hi shoulder, ”And if he growls at you, even once, he’s out. He looks wild.” I am, Riley… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Do you know, if I go to a Jewish school, them kids are quiet. If I go to a white school, them… — Eric D. Thomas Copy Share Image
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image