159 Quotes on School

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

  Author: Dick York

• 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

• In school, I was an underachiever.

  Author: Henry Winkler

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

  Author: Dave Winfield

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

  Author: Andy Williams

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

  Author: Ryan White

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

  Author: Ryan White

• 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 played cello in my high school orchestra.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

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

  Author: Bruce Vento

• 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 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

• 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

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

  Author: Charlene Tilton

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

  Author: Mel Tillis

• 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

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

  Author: Joe Tex

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

  Author: Paul Taylor

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

  Author: David Talbot

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

  Author: Loretta Swit

• Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

  Author: Sly Stone

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

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• 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

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

  Author: Dan Simmons

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

  Author: Ryan Sheckler

• 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

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

  Author: Paul Scott

• I was a geek in high school.

  Author: David Schwimmer

• 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

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

  Author: Devon Sawa

• 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

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

  Author: Darius Rucker

• You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

  Author: Roy Romer

• The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

  Author: Sally Ride

• I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

  Author: Bernice Reagon

• I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

  Author: Emo Philips

• I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

  Author: Piper Perabo

• I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.

  Author: Harvey Pekar

• I was an elementary school teacher.

  Author: Luciano Pavarotti

• I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

  Author: Robert Pattinson

• However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

  Author: Brian Palma

• I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

  Author: Jim Otto

• I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.

  Author: Stacie Orrico

• Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.

  Author: Stacie Orrico

• I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

  Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

• You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

  Author: Jodi O'Keefe

• Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

  Author: Douglass North

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  Author: Jack Nicholson

• You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

  Author: John Newcombe

• I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

  Author: John Newcombe

• In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  Author: Ted Nelson

• I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

  Author: Edwin Moses

• I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

  Author: Van Morrison

• I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

  Author: Marguerite Moreau

• I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.

  Author: Shemar Moore

• In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

  Author: Julianna Moore

• I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

  Author: Elizabeth Moon

• It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

  Author: John Money

• You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

  Author: Colin Mochrie

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

  Author: Kevin Mitnick

• I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

  Author: Jason Mewes

• I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

  Author: Colm Meaney

• A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

  Author: Cotton Mather

• I have always loved going to school.

  Author: Rudolph Marcus

• So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

  Author: Method Man

• I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

  Author: Dorothy Malone

• I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

  Author: Joel Madden

• I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

  Author: Mike Lowry

• I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

  Author: Lance Loud

• In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

  Author: Blake Lively

• I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

  Author: Maya Lin

• I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

  Author: Maya Lin

• Most every dental school has discount dental services.

  Author: Matthew Lesko

• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  Author: Tanith Lee

• When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

  Author: Mary Leakey

• I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

  Author: Nathan Lane

• My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

  Author: Joseph Lancaster

• I was a dummy in school.

  Author: Alan Ladd

• When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

  Author: C. Koop

• I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school.

  Author: Heidi Klum

• The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.

  Author: Tom Joyner

• You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

  Author: Al Jourgensen

• I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

  Author: Quincy Jones

• How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed.

  Author: Jam Jay

• Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

  Author: Arne Jacobsen

• The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

  Author: Joichi Ito

• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  Author: Rachel Hunter

• I dated the same girl all through high school.

  Author: Mark Hoppus

• I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.

  Author: Andy Hertzfeld

• It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

  Author: Gilbert Hernandez

• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

  Author: Levon Helm

• Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out.

  Author: Phil Harris

• I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

  Author: Daniela Hantuchova

• I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

  Author: Jane Haddam

• I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.

  Author: Jimmy Griffin

• 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.

  Author: Lucas Grabeel

• 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?

  Author: Martin Goldsmith

• A good place to start initially would be school plays.

  Author: Sara Gilbert

• It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

  Author: John Gardner

• There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

  Author: Michael Gambon

• Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

  Author: Edward Furlong

• I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

  Author: Claire Forlani

• You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

  Author: Henry Ford

• You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's.

  Author: Tom Felton

• No one has the Houdini school of composition.

  Author: Morton Feldman

• Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

  Author: Frederic Farrar

• I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

  Author: Dakota Fanning

• I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

  Author: John Engler

• I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

  Author: Philip Emeagwali

• I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

  Author: Shannon Elizabeth

• We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

  Author: Zac Efron

• High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

  Author: Zac Efron

• It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

  Author: John Eaton

• My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

  Author: Clea Duvall

• I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

  Author: Josh Duhamel

• After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

  Author: Grazia Deledda

• I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

  Author: Desmond Dekker

• Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

  Author: Billy Crystal

• I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

  Author: Jeremy Collier

• I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

  Author: James Coleman

• There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.

  Author: Dabney Coleman

• I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

  Author: George Cole

• I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

  Author: Diane Cilento

• I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

  Author: Alonzo Church

• When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

  Author: Alex Chiu

• I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

  Author: Linda Cardellini

• Don't peak in high school.

  Author: Lizzy Caplan

• I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

  Author: Scott Caan

• I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

  Author: T-Bone Burnett

• We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

  Author: Carol Burnett

• A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

  Author: Deborah Bull

• I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

  Author: Lenny Bruce

• I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

  Author: Bruce Boxleitner

• I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

  Author: David Boreanaz

• I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

  Author: Danny Bonaduce

• Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

  Author: Erma Bombeck

• I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

  Author: Suzy Bogguss

• Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

  Author: Corbin Bleu

• When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.

  Author: Jane Birkin

• Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.

  Author: Travis Barker

• My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

  Author: Travis Barker

• As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

  Author: Shawn Ashmore

• I went to high school with Al Capone.

  Author: Desi Arnaz

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  Author: Tatyana Ali

• I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

  Author: Christina Aguilera

• I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

  Author: Don Adams

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