Top 1200 School Library Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school.

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

I went to a soccer high school, and it was really different to being on 'Idol.' So I decided to quit school, and I put all my energy into music, and things started to happen.

I'm going to teach high school. History and economics. I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too.

Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

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.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

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.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringworm. I got made fun of a lot. People called me 'Miss Man' and 'Guns,' and people directed a lot of karate jokes at me. I wish that I was at school now that MMA and martial arts is cool, but back when I was in school, people associated it with nerdy stuff.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

One enjoyable consequence of being in the Scouts was that, at the start of each new school year, we had to camp out in tents on the school playing fields.

Though I was into modeling and extracurricular activities in my school days at C.G. High School in Mumbai, I never thought of making it big someday in a film-industry.

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

I remember throughout middle school and high school how excited my mom, sister and I would be when a UNC game was on TV. It was required viewing.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

I was in high school - and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools.

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

I went to middle school and high school, and my drama teacher, Ms. Cooper, basically nurtured me. It was always a part of my life, and my parents allowed it to be.

I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.

I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

When I was at school you never heard the word 'ADHD.' We didn't even hear 'dyslexic' at school. There was really nothing on offer. It wasn't on the planet as far as we were concerned.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

I was good at school but I thought I sucked at everything else. I was socially scared of making relationships. High school was a big fail as the social experiment that it is.

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.