School Quotes

• I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Why
  • Home
  • Lonely

• Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • Kids
  • Black

• The goal is not to just do 'Video Game High School' every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Real
  • High
  • Game

• I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Done
  • Rest
  • Ballet

• Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

  

  Courtney Love
  • She
  • High
  • Famous

• We have to support each other's tired nerves, I know that sounds so Pollyanna, but really... Mommy groups can be amazing, but haven't you ever gone to one and felt like you are back in high school, totally on the outside of the 'cool kids' club? I totally have!

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Kids
  • High
  • Support

• I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • College
  • Miserable

• I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.

  

  Shakira
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pretty

• Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Mother

• When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Up
  • Good
  • High

• I knew nothing when I first met him. He taught me to see things through his eyes. Dalí was my teacher. He let me use his brushes, his paint and his canvas, so that I could play around while he was painting for hours and hours in the same studio. Surrealism was a good school for me. Listening to Dalí talk was better than going to any art school.

  

  Amanda Lear
  • Good
  • Art
  • Eyes

• I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • High
  • Team
  • Football

• Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Good
  • Business
  • Giving

• Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Night
  • Fighting

• 'There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.'

  

  Chris Colfer
  • World
  • Live
  • High

• I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • High
  • Teacher
  • Year

• I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Music
  • High
  • Night

• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Confidence
  • Study
  • Youth

• I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• In many ways, journalism school and culinary school are quite similar. They both teach fundamental skills and habits, but ultimately you learn through on-the-job training.

  

  Kathleen Flinn
  • School
  • Job
  • Training

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