Top 1200 School Band Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one at radio wants to play a band that's on a television show.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice.

I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.'

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were messing around with music. We never played off-campus except for once or twice. We never had any ambitions to make it as a band after college, or anything like that. So that probably worked in our favor. We never took anything seriously, we still don't!

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

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

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.

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could.

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.

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

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.

We started the band with a work ethic of 'it's us against the world' and that is something that our fans aligned with, too. Together, we speak a common language. I think that motto has helped us keep the creative force alive all these years while the fans have kept the fire burning for us to always be excited to create new music for them. Without the fans, we are a band without a home.

I always used to sing in the house and I went to school at Hywel Dda Primary School in Ely. I think they had a puppet-type show there and word got around I could sing. I sang at that puppet performance and used to sing in school. From there, it was in my blood. I didn't want to do anything else but sing.

Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.

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

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

I left school to go to so many trials. There was no point in me going to school because I was away all the time.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

The school I went to was only famous for one thing... Peter Osgood went to that particular school. That's probably my earliest memory of the importance of football.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.