School Quotes

• When they were growing up, I was working from morning to night. When I left, they were asleep, when I came back, they were asleep,' once he told a magazine. Even when they were young, he couldn't visit their school as Shweta and Abhishek asked him not to visit them to avoid too much commotion

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Up
  • Night
  • Growing

• When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • World
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

  

  Courtney Eaton
  • People
  • School

• I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • Happy
  • College

• My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • High
  • College

• My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

  

  Louis Prima
  • School
  • Band
  • Brother

• Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • School

• I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.

  

  Brandon Adams
  • Life
  • School
  • Business

• Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Home
  • Stop
  • Church

• Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friends

• I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Time
  • Football
  • Training

• It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.

  

  John Sergeant Wise
  • School
  • True

• In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would wear crazy patterns, skin-tight pants and giant platform shoes.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • High
  • Attention
  • Fashion

• At 9, I started taking classes at Sylvia Young Theatre School. One day, they asked if I wanted to join their agency. You get in if you're cute, I guess.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • School
  • Theatre
  • Cute

• I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

  

  Jason Lee
  • School
  • Fun
  • Surfing

• If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

  

  Joe Green
  • High
  • Running
  • Alone

• Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pride,' and it's a reality show where we're going around the country and renovating schools. It's really great.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Great
  • Country
  • Reality

• I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • Music
  • Cool

• I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

  

  Jandy Nelson
  • Family
  • High
  • Childhood

• Consider why the quality of school dinners is declining, even as more and more golf courses are opened.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Why
  • Quality
  • Golf

• Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • School
  • Fun

• As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government… our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors – in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • God
  • Truth
  • Society

• criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Writing
  • School
  • Criticism

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