School Quotes
9990 quotes by 5794 authors
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
— Oscar Wilde
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School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per…
— Drew Barrymore
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I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
— Kanye West
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We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there . . . he was very tall and…
— Cameron Diaz
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If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't…
— Barack Obama
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed…
— Bob Brown
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There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
— Azim Premji
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As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.
— Erma Bombeck
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You might be a redneck if... your high school basketball game got rained out.
— Jeff Foxworthy
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In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
— Richard Saul Wurman
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My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!
— Breckin Meyer
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I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One…
— Keith Richards
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he…
— Maria Montessori
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When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see…
— Kathy Griffin
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
— Malcolm X
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In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
— Cesar Chavez
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down,…
— George Carlin
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,…
— Ronald Reagan
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