Top 1200 School Districts Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

Our ultimate goal with Real Models is to open a school and I would love to do it here in Miami, open up a charter school.

I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

I maybe convinced my parents to let me cut school once, but definitely, in college, I cut school a lot.

At school people found it quite funny that I did ballroom, but I recently went to my school reunion and all they wanted to talk about was ballroom and 'Strictly.'

My dad worked for a theatre company that was two minutes away from my primary school, so I'd just walk there after school and watch the rehearsals. I think that's probably when I fell in love with acting and telling stories.

I've biked my whole life. We didn't have bus service when I was going to school in Holland, so I biked around 25 kilometers to school every day.

I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school... In fashion, one day you're in, the next you're out.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

As long as I really stay on top of my school work, which I'm for the most part able to do, it's really no problem, me missing school.

So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.

I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

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

Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married... with Children,' which is a really funny and perverse place for a little girl in a Catholic school uniform to grow up.

I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave.

We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'

High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student... but I think it's learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

I was in school studying International Studies and Sociology. I was really into what was going on in school. I was affected by the ideas and engaged as a student, but not disciplined or motivated enough to do the work. That was a fear of mine for a while, that nothing was motivating.

I do school on set and then when I come home I go back to school and kind of balance it out. One day I'll be 18 and then I won't have to do it.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China are going to school 25, 30, 35 more days a year. They're just working harder than us. So, we need more time, particularly for disadvantaged children, who aren't getting those supports at home.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.