Schools Quotes · Page 8

Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in…

— Daniela Hantuchova

“Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.”

— Ken Robinson

“America is a nation of illusions; illusions in the media, schools and government — an iron curtain of propaganda.”

— Bryant McGill

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

— Ruben Hinojosa

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile…

— Dean Smith

In my Sunday School class there was a beautiful little girl with golden curls. I was smitten at once and still am.

— Harry S Truman

I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight…

— Dennis Washington

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

— Richard Dawkins

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario…

— Alex Lifeson

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify…

— Mitt Romney

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's…

— Ryan Phillippe

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical…

— Lisa Ling

Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing.…

— Darell Hammond

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do…

— Rudy Giuliani

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say,…

— James Patterson

I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and…

— Tony Hawk

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

— Michael Welch

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

— Ninette de Valois

We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life…

— Thomas Friedman

Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.

— Noreena Hertz

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture…

— Ken Robinson

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started…

— Garry Kasparov

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

— Philippe Petit

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students…

— Donalyn Miller

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

— John Leo

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just…

— Sugata Mitra

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

— Clint Smith

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that…

— Roger Schank

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

We all know that we are not perfect? So why do we act as if this is the case & hold ourselves…

— Alastair Arnott

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food…

— Ben Elliot

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

— Craig Benson

“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

— Jeff Merkley

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other…

— John Warner

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and…

— David Vitter

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

— Michael Bloomberg

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

— Ray Bradbury