School Quotes · Page 99

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

— Skylar Grey

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.

— Eva Moskowitz

School spirit is something everyone wants but few are willing to take the risk to demonstrate independently.

— Anonymous

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.

— Ben Bernanke

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

— Will Rogers

My four years in college, I cherished very much the opportunity to be able to stay at home.

— Chris Mullin

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

— Ross Bleckner

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

— Eunhyuk

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

— Les Miles

I knew when I left school, my stomach would probably hurt from having nothing to eat, and I would be going back…

— Polo G

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay…

— Anonymous

When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird.…

— Amy Sherald

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down…

— Florence King

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Don't go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school. Go to a…

— John Wall

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.…

— A. E. Hotchner

I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the…

— Ronald Reagan

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on…

— Nat Wolff

Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,…

— Richard Armour

A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of…

— Gretel Ehrlich

I knew that I wanted to intern at 'Teen Vogue' from the moment the first issue hit newsstands. Luckily, the team at…

— Emily Weiss

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return.…

— Thomas Sowell

It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90…

— Rob Thomas

The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have…

— Daniel Finkelstein

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

— Andy Hargreaves

I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

— Vint Cerf

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

— John F. Kennedy

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

— James Cronin

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

— Tom Douglas

I trained in Hindustani, and then I went to music school.

— Shruti Haasan

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

— Rudolf Steiner

I went to a strict school. Even if a button was missing here and a clip missing there, we were punished.

— Amrita Rao

I've had transfer students who have never seen the inside of their previous coach's house.

— John Calipari

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.

— Declan Donnelly

“No, I'd rather be in school, learning nothings in a classroom full of children”

— Victoria Aveyard

You always have that bit of hope inside you during a fire drill, that your school is actually on fire...

— Anonymous

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

— Chi McBride

We had musical instruments at home, so when I wasn't in school, I would sing and write all the time.

— Griff

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

— Venus Williams