300 Quotes on School

• When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

  Author: Robin Yount

• This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

  Author: Dick York

• There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

  Author: Donnie Yen

• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

  Author: William Yeats

• Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

  Author: Peter Wright

• I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

  Author: John Wozniak

• Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

  Author: George Woodcock

• I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

  Author: George Woodcock

• I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

  Author: Ron Wood

• My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

  Author: Gene Wolfe

• I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

  Author: John Wise

• I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• In school, I was an underachiever.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  Author: Rainn Wilson

• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  Author: Owen Wilson

• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

  Author: James Wilson

• My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  Author: Cassandra Wilson

• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

  Author: Roy Williams

• We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

  Author: Andy Williams

• His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

  Author: Emma Willard

• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  Author: William Wiley

• I loved doing problems in school.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

  Author: Eli Whitney

• The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

  Author: Ryan White

• Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

  Author: Ryan White

• I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

  Author: Ryan White

• I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

  Author: Ryan White

• I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

  Author: Ryan White

• Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

  Author: Patrick White

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  Author: Patrick White

• As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

  Author: Patrick White

• Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

  Author: Byron White

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  Author: Barry White

• Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

  Author: Shane West

• By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

  Author: Shane West

• I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

  Author: Kanye West

• 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.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

  Author: Ida Wells

• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  Author: Ida Wells

• We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.

  Author: Jeanne Welles

• The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

  Author: William Weld

• I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

  Author: Raquel Welch

• New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Author: Len Wein

• I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• I played cello in my high school orchestra.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

  Author: Diane Watson

• I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Author: Chris Ware

• I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

  Author: Sela Ward

• A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

  Author: Mary Ward

• There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

  Author: John Walton

• All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.

  Author: John Walters

• And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

  Author: James Walsh

• Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

  Author: Horace Walpole

• I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

  Author: John Walker

• You can't teach creativity at film school.

  Author: Daniel Walker

• On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

  Author: Peter Vries

• True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

  Author: Troy Vincent

• The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

  Author: Linda Vester

• Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.

  Author: Bruce Vento

• I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

  Author: Alexa Vega

• In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

  Author: Thorstein Veblen

• I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

  Author: Vince Vaughn

• All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

  Author: Ville Valo

• You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

  Author: Boris Vallejo

• I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

  Author: Sigrid Undset

• I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

  Author: Sigrid Undset

• I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• I had gone to school to study marine biology.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

  Author: Tom Udall

• My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

  Author: Aisha Tyler

• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Author: Mark Twain

• I've never let my school interfere with my education.

  Author: Mark Twain

• God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

  Author: Scott Turow

• You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

  Author: Ivana Trump

• And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?

  Author: Rachel True

• In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

  Author: Lars Trier

• I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

  Author: Obie Trice

• I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

  Author: Thuy Trang

• Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.

  Author: Benicio Toro

• I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

  Author: Carrot Top

• On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

  Author: Carrot Top

• I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

  Author: James Tobin

• Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like "What did you do to yourself?" I was so embarrassed.

  Author: Ashley Tisdale

• One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

  Author: Jean Tinguely

• I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.

  Author: Charlene Tilton

• While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

  Author: Charlene Tilton

• And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

  Author: Jim Thome

• I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it.

  Author: William Thomas

• At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

  Author: Kristin Thomas

• Even if I had a tuxedo I wouldn't wear it to school.

  Author: Henry Thomas

• When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.

  Author: Joe Tex

• You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.

  Author: Paul Taylor

• Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

  Author: Johannes Tauler

• Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

  Author: David Talbot

• The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

  Author: Algernon Sydney

• When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

  Author: Loretta Swit

• It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

  Author: Sarah Sutton

• I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

  Author: Sarah Sutton

• I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

  Author: Joan Sutherland

• Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

  Author: Ruben Studdard

• A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

  Author: Yvonne Strahovski

• To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

  Author: John Strachan

• Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

  Author: Sly Stone

• Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

  Author: Emma Stone

• It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.

  Author: Emma Stone

• The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

  Author: Mink Stole

• Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body.

  Author: Catharine Stimpson

• I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

  Author: Stephen Stills

• High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

  Author: David Stiers

• I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  Author: Al Stewart

• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  Author: Pamela Stephenson

• School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.

  Author: David Steinberg

• I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

  Author: Jason Statham

• Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

  Author: Jason Statham

• I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

  Author: Sylvester Stallone

• I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

  Author: Jo Stafford

• We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

  Author: Steve Spurrier

• The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

  Author: Morgan Spurlock

• I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

  Author: Stephen Sprouse

• But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

  Author: Stephen Sprouse

• I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

  Author: Stephen Sprouse

• I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

  Author: Rick Springfield

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

  Author: Rick Springfield

• I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

  Author: Catherine Spence

• My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

  Author: Catherine Spence

• And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

  Author: David Spade

• The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.

  Author: David Soul

• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

• I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

  Author: James Somerville

• I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

  Author: James Somerville

• I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

  Author: Marla Sokoloff

• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  Author: Vic Snyder

• In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

  Author: Vernon Smith

• Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

  Author: Lillian Smith

• People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.

  Author: Ed Smith

• Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

  Author: Connie Smith

• Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

  Author: Chad Smith

• I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

  Author: Chad Smith

• There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

  Author: Erika Slezak

• We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

  Author: Stellan Skarsgard

• Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style.

  Author: Christian Siriano

• One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

  Author: James Sinegal

• At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.

  Author: Jessica Simpson

• I liked money more than going to school.

  Author: Norton Simon

• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

  Author: Dan Simmons

• And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

  Author: Sarah Silverman

• On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

  Author: Ignazio Silone

• After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

  Author: George Sidney

• Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

  Author: Grant Show

• I was actually going to law school in 1972.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

  Author: Pauly Shore

• My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.

  Author: Brooke Shields

• I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

  Author: Bobby Sherman

• But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

  Author: Ryan Sheckler

• I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

  Author: George Shearing

• I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

  Author: Jules Shear

• I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

  Author: Alia Shawkat

• Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.

  Author: Lindsey Shaw

• My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

  Author: Lindsey Shaw

• I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

  Author: Molly Shannon

• When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

  Author: Albert Shanker

• We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  Author: John Sexton

• The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

  Author: Amartya Sen

• Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

  Author: Tom Selleck

• There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.

  Author: Jason Segel

• I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

  Author: Jon Secada

• We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

  Author: Paul Scott

• There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

  Author: Jill Scott

• Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

  Author: Ashley Scott

• I was a geek in high school.

  Author: David Schwimmer

• The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

  Author: Delmore Schwartz

• As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

  Author: Rick Schroder

• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

  Author: Fred Savage

• Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.

  Author: Fred Savage

• I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  Author: George Santayana

• This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

  Author: Leverett Saltonstall

• I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

  Author: Alberto Salazar

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  Author: Carl Sagan

• I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

  Author: Dora Russell

• Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

  Author: Dora Russell

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  Author: J. Rushton

• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

  Author: Darius Rucker

• If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

  Author: Johnny Rotten

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