School Quotes

• My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.

  

  Ann-Marie Campbell
  • Children
  • She
  • Business

• At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • People
  • Age
  • Me

• I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • School
  • High
  • Passion

• I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • School
  • Friends
  • Decision

• In private school, I definitely judged myself against the lighter-skinned girls. I wanted to have different hair. I wanted to fit in. I thought that was more beautiful.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Leaving
  • Year

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
  • Never
  • Goodness

• It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Kids
  • High

• What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • She
  • Numbers
  • Number 2

• Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School

• My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

  

  Juice Wrld
  • Radio
  • Rapper
  • Freestyle

• I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • High
  • Kind
  • Theatre

• I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• South Africans cannot believe that a man who never went to school is the President and that is the reason why he must be attacked 24/7 ... No one has ever said it is a miracle for this man to have become president and wrote a column about it.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Miracle

• When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

  

  Mary Pope Osborne
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Writing
  • High
  • City

• I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.

  

  Ann Powers
  • Music
  • Writing
  • High

• When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • School
  • Play
  • Down

• I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • High
  • Team
  • Running

• I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

  

  Kenny Baker
  • School
  • Business

• There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Together
  • Support
  • Hand

• I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Art
  • Myself

• In Buffalo, you can't imagine how much people revere Fred Jackson because of his high character, his community involvement, coming from a Division III school.

  

  Marv Levy
  • People
  • Character
  • High

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