School Quotes

• No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

  

  Ellen Glasgow
  • Experience
  • Book
  • History

• I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • School
  • Learning
  • Challenge

• I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was 'Good to Be a Man.' That what's got me signed.

  

  Elle King
  • Good
  • Country
  • Art

• I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

  

  John Boehner
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Business

• In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

  

  Kenny Marchant
  • Children
  • School

• I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

  

  Nikolaas Tinbergen
  • School
  • Effort
  • Failing

• I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assignment back, she'd written: 'This is so good, Andrew. This should be published!' That made a big impression on me.

  

  Andrew Clements
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I love romance stories; I've been working on 'School Spirit' over at Rosy Press, which is sort of a modern take on a classic romance comic - so I'm clearly a fan!

  

  Kate Leth
  • School

• For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

  

  James Comey
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Loved
  • Driven
  • Cum Laude

• In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Family
  • Book
  • High

• I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • School
  • City

• If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Today
  • Math
  • Doctors

• I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.

  

  Daren Kagasoff
  • High
  • Fall
  • Brain

• I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.

  

  Patti Smith
  • School
  • Happy
  • Strong

• My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • High
  • Father
  • Truck

• When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. And I have since now found a New York where if I lived there now, I know where I would want to live.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Time
  • Live
  • College

• I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

  

  Anderson East
  • School
  • Hand
  • Sports

• At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • School
  • Stupid
  • Teacher's Pet

• I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

  

  Christina Perri
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• When I got outta school, I didn't know what I was gonna do with my life. I knew I didn't have much in the grades department, and so I was very fearful. A whole lot of fear.

  

  Chris Farley
  • Life
  • School
  • Fear

• There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Time
  • Game
  • Relationship

• Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.

  

  Alan Smith
  • Great
  • Team
  • Winning

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