School Quotes

• I was raised by my grandmother. She instilled everything into me. She taught me right from wrong from day one. I remembered everyday, being 4 or 5 years old, and walking to school, she would be like, Raise your right hand and stay on the right side of the street and make sure you do the right thing in school.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Walking
  • Everyday
  • Grandmother

• The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

  

  Silvia Cartwright
  • Home
  • Peace
  • Quest

• Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • School
  • Medical
  • Graduates

• The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • College
  • Problem

• The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Mean
  • Religious
  • Philosophy

• School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

  

  Ivan Illich
  • Society
  • Need
  • Advertising

• The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Strong
  • Building
  • Prosperity

• The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

  

  Daniel Finkelstein
  • Team
  • Football
  • Player

• I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Evidence
  • Motivated
  • Missionary

• I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

  

  Michael Rosenbaum
  • School
  • Prom
  • Homebodies

• At drama school, I was told, 'Lay off the chips, or you'll never play Juliet.' Sometimes, in the stock room of the set of 'Dinnerladies,' I'd put away three or four Mars bars while waiting for a scene. Then, at 24, I lost five stone.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Lost
  • Waiting
  • Drama

• All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Wish
  • Stories
  • Happened

• For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

  

  Ethan Embry
  • School
  • Taken

• Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Running
  • Effort

• I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Team
  • College
  • Football

• I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

  

  Terrence McNally
  • Writing
  • School
  • Educate

• The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • Learn
  • Violent

• The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • School
  • Supportive

• I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • School

• Basically what my mom told me - I was extremely shy, I didn't have any girlfriends 'til I was 21 - my mom would see me suffering and tell me, "Just focus on your school, study very hard, and some day you will be successful and you can use all the resources that you have to a dating advantage." Ultimately, I took that advice and turned it into dating sites.

  

  Brandon Wade
  • Focus
  • Successful
  • Girlfriend

• I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Believe
  • School

• I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Crazy
  • Birth
  • Adults

• You’re really doing well, it’s the satisfaction you get from school, it’s love,” Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • School
  • Love
  • Satisfaction

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