School Quotes

• I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

  

  James Frecheville
  • School
  • Why

• I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • World
  • Faith
  • Practice

• I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • High
  • Doing
  • High School

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Home
  • America
  • Moral

• Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Work
  • Money
  • Society

• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • House
  • Boy

• When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Time
  • High
  • Dance

• I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

  

  Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
  • School

• For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Done
  • History

• I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

  

  Mary Wesley
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Science

• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Up
  • High
  • Me

• I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Kids

• A little bit about my family: We didn't really come from much, and we didn't take family trips to California, so my first trip to California was actually my first day of school.

  

  Bresha Webb
  • Family
  • School
  • California

• I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • School
  • Bad

• In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • People
  • World
  • Remember

• People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Kids
  • High

• Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Want
  • Play
  • Kid

• Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Friends
  • High
  • Day

• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Loved
  • Classmates
  • Dork

• The subject I was best at in school was biology.

  

  Astrid Berges-Frisbey
  • School

• Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.

  

  John Sulston
  • Children
  • She
  • Mother

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