School Quotes

• If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Care

• Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Enough
  • Discipline
  • Logic

• Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

  

  Jim Henson
  • High
  • Small
  • College

• Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?

  

  Martin Goldsmith
  • School
  • Nice
  • Sunday

• At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that.

  

  Lilla Crawford
  • School

• The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world's failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • World
  • High
  • Reading

• I was a high school throw-out.

  

  Alan King
  • School
  • High

• The thing is, I actually feel a lot more comfortable at school just bumming around with my friends than I do at Hollywood parties. But then, I guess you're just never happy with what you have.

  

  Emily Browning
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Here's a newsflash from the only High Preistess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. And believe me, I know dead. I've been there, done that, and got the frickin' T-shirt." - Stevie Rae

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Believe
  • Done
  • High

• At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • School

• Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • School
  • Art

• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Different
  • Morning
  • Eye

• I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • School
  • English

• I always wanted to go to a drama school.

  

  April Pearson
  • School
  • Drama

• Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • School
  • Guitar
  • Puberty

• When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Football

• 'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • School
  • She

• As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • High
  • Cool
  • Boy

• I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.

  

  Noureen DeWulf
  • School
  • Crowd
  • Artsy

• We believe in a whole-school approach to ICT.

  

  Adrian Wilson
  • Believe
  • School
  • Approach

• In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

  

  Lucas Grabeel
  • High
  • Teacher
  • Boy

• Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Life
  • Writing
  • School

• We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Political
  • Party
  • Privacy

• Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Children
  • TV
  • Cellphone

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