School Quotes

• The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Single
  • Sad
  • Rain

• The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn't know these were gang colours, ... The kids were being recruited through their colours.

  

  Don Meredith
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Teacher

• During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Life
  • Family
  • High

• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.

  

  Ann-Marie Campbell
  • Children
  • She
  • Business

• I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

  

  Peter De Vries
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Summer

• I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Good
  • School
  • Very

• I still remember sitting in my parent's basement playing 'Final Fantasy VII' in middle school. When Sephiroth came down like LeBron James on Aerith with that sword, I couldn't talk for a full 20 minutes.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • School
  • Remember

• There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.

  

  Jason Segel
  • High
  • Period
  • Lawyer

• I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • School
  • Football
  • Rugby

• Advice to students: Leap in and try things. If you succeed, you can have enormous influence. If you fail, you have still learned something, and your next attempt is sure to be better for it. Advice to graduates: Do something you really enjoy doing. If it isn’t fun to get up in the morning and do your job or your school program, you’re in the wrong field.

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • Up
  • Job
  • Fun

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Why

• I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Hand

• When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

  

  Brian Johnson
  • Free
  • Red
  • Driving

• Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

  

  Geoffrey Holder
  • School
  • Home
  • Education

• I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

  

  James Corden
  • Kids
  • Shoes
  • Bullying

• About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • School

• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Home
  • High
  • College

• I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

  

  Danny Pintauro
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

  

  Jay IDK
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • School
  • Boy
  • Class

• I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

  

  Delta Goodrem
  • School
  • Drama

• I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Single
  • Fashion
  • January

• When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would've thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Real
  • Kids
  • High

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