SCHOOL QUOTES

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
  ~ Beatrix Potter ~
• The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
  ~ Walt Whitman ~
• Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul
  ~ John Keats ~
• Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.
  ~ Kevin Mitnick ~
• As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
  ~ Kevin Mitnick ~
• Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.
  ~ Peter Guber ~
• Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
  ~ Edward Norton ~
• I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.
  ~ Josh Hutcherson ~
• What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.
  ~ Samuel Wilson ~
• People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
  ~ Emily Blunt ~
• Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
  ~ Emo Philips ~
• You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
  ~ Emo Philips ~
• Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
  ~ John Malkovich ~
• I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
  ~ Chris Brown ~
• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
  ~ Zac Efron ~
• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• 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.
  ~ Johnny Vegas ~
• From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
  ~ Heinrich Heine ~
• I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
  ~ Robert Rodriguez ~
• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
  ~ Robert Rodriguez ~
• My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
  ~ Jack White ~
• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
  ~ David Miliband ~
• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
  ~ Mitch Daniels ~
• I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
  ~ Roger Goodell ~
• We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
  ~ James Hillman ~
• I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.
  ~ Jean Claude Van Damme ~
• I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
  ~ Anthony Hopkins ~
• I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.
  ~ Jonah Hill ~
• It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
  ~ Ethan Hawke ~
• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
  ~ Albert Ellis ~
• Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• 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.
  ~ Denzel Washington ~
• Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
  ~ Jeremy Rifkin ~
• I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
  ~ Richard Pryor ~
• As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
  ~ Norman Schwarzkopf ~
• He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
  ~ Norman Schwarzkopf ~
• In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
  ~ Fareed Zakaria ~
• In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
  ~ Fareed Zakaria ~
• My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
  ~ Mike Krzyzewski ~
• In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
  ~ Mike Krzyzewski ~
• In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
  ~ Mike Krzyzewski ~
• I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
  ~ Jenna Bush ~
• I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.
  ~ Jenna Bush ~
• When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
  ~ Anna Deavere Smith ~
• I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
  ~ Anna Deavere Smith ~
• I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
  ~ Anna Deavere Smith ~
• 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.
  ~ Conan O'brien ~
• I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
  ~ Robert Fulghum ~
• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
  ~ Natalie Portman ~
• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
  ~ Natalie Portman ~
• Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.
  ~ Mike Huckabee ~
• I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.
  ~ Dave Eggers ~
• My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.
  ~ Gus Van Sant ~
• My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.
  ~ Gus Van Sant ~
• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
  ~ Mao Zedong ~
• It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.
  ~ Jane Seymour ~
• The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.
  ~ Seann William Scott ~
• Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
  ~ Karl Lagerfeld ~
• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
  ~ Karl Lagerfeld ~
• I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
  ~ Elton John ~
• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
  ~ Major Owens ~