Top 1200 After-School Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

After I left school at 16 I had three jobs: I worked in a ceramics factory, where I made toilet handles, I repaired cars for people and in the evenings and weekends I worked in a bar. I had to do them all to make ends meet.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

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.

After my parents split up my mother moved to Lake Oswego and I went to Lake Oswego High School. And then finally I went to Portland State University for a year and a half before dropping out and moving to New York.

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

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.

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

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.

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

I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

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 worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

I liked school except for having to get up early and, of course, high school drama!

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

I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am.

Our industry often writes an actress off after she gets married. I gave hits before getting married, after getting married, after having my first child, after having my second child and continue to do so.

My golden time is after I drop the kids off at school. I'm usually working on my website (lifestyle site Goop) and checking emails but I try to do something at least once a week - like a facial or a visit to the osteopath - something to bring myself back into my body.

Every day before I went to school, I'd already looked after my siblings. In the evenings, I often put them to bed. It was a hard time, but at the same time we were doing very well. We were happy. My family is everything for me.

My mom's a character. My dad was my coach, but my mom was the one who was hard on me. I would come home from a game in high school after throwing five touchdowns and she would say, 'Oh, you played all right. You can do a little better.'

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.

Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

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 beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.

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

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!

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

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

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.

Like most markets, Da Jing is most alive just after dawn, when the elementary-school children in their uniforms and bright red kerchiefs set off through narrow streets, marking the start of another frenzied day of commerce.

Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.

I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

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

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.

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

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

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.

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.

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

I was in public school until third or fourth grade, and after that, I was homeschooled. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education.

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

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

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

I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.

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.