Top 1200 Back To School Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

Jack, my 16 year old, was in knots a couple of months back, studying for Latin. I said, "Mate, you've got no interest in Latin. You don't want to go into it after, so drop it." He said, "No, I can't. I'm going to get bullied at school because all my mates are in there." There's a prime example of why no one cooks at school. You're studying Latin, you've got no interest.

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years, and when I came back, I tried to get into the painting classes which I wanted, but because of all the returned GIs [the GI Bill], everyone was in school and the classes were all full. So I looked at the catalogue and found that there was a ceramic class offered and that there was space in that. I registered for a ceramic class and some drawing classes.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

I was a chorister at St Mary's Music School, from the ages of 11 to 13, after prep school and before I went to the Durham School. Edinburgh's my favourite city in the whole world. I don't think there's anywhere that comes close to it.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn't the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I'd be very happy serving on a local school board. I just know that I have a responsibility to give back.

I was such a worrier at school. I wish I could go back and tell myself to stop stressing.

All I wanted to do while I was a teenager was go out and play most of the time and just enjoy life and have fun. I wasn't big into school, you know, I look back now and wish I would have spent more time studying and enjoyed it more. It's not for everyone and I didn't enjoy it that much like going to school and studying - some stuff I did but some of it I didn't. My attention span wasn't there.

I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"

I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.

I went on Skins' when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

I was a part of my school choir and used to participate in several singing competitions back then.

It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

When you're going back to school, you want something fresh and new, and perfume is the best way to do that.

I was born in Berlin, and when I was 6, my mom passed. When I was 9, I moved to near Washington, D.C., where I lived with my aunt and uncle. And then at 11, I moved back to Berlin. And then at 16, I got in trouble in school and moved back to the Washington area.

I didn't learn acting. I was still in school/college, shooting and then going back to studies.

I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing 'Young and the Restless.' Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.

I'm from the old school, so I was wearing button-up polo shirts way back, with the sweater to match.

When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

I have always been a pretty accurate quarterback going back to high school and it is something that I have prided myself on.

I loved playing in the fields back home and racing with my fellow students on the way to school.

I am not into this old-school way of doing things, where you kill characters, and you bring them back, and then you kill them again, and then you bring them back, and their deaths mean nothing.

I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in the boiler room of a high school at night. When I see high school guys now I'm actually like, 'Thank f - king God I'm not in high school anymore because they look like they could kick the living s - t out of me.'

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I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.

It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

Anyone look back at their high school career and just shudder at what you got away with and didn't die?

I'd watch Pixar movies for, like, six hours, back-to-back. I'd watch 'Finding Nemo' twice a week, back-to-back-to-back, three times in a row.

I wish I could have wrestled back in that era of the NWA with my dad. Real old-school style.

The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

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My school didn't have a drama department. I was one of the lucky four children who got to travel twice a week to another school because our school could only afford one taxi.

It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at university studying engineering that I thought, well what do I really want to do? And I kind of came back to that and I said, well the degrees I'm trying to get are going to qualify me to apply. And so, that's what I did after I finished my, or after I was getting my doctorates. That's when I first applied to NASA.

My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.

My well-meaning parents decided to send me to a Catholic grade school to get a better education than I probably would have received at the local public school. They had no way of knowing that the school nuns, who were the majority of the teachers at this particular parochial school, were right-wing, card-carrying John Birch Society members.

I didn't get into drama school after university. Looking back, I think I was really bad.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

The first film I worked in was Dev Anand's 'Hum Naujawan.'Then I went back to school and college.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.

I was at Watford and got a knock-back when I was 16 and didn't get a YTS contract. They said I could find another club or go in and train three times a week after school. I'd been there since I was 10, so I got my head down and proved them wrong. Within a year, they had signed me up, and I haven't looked back.

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.

How to survive boarding school. Do not express emotion, do not feel emotion, do not have emotion. If someone hits you, hit them back, if someone argues with you, argue back, never give in an inch, never look vulnerable and you will survive.

Do you question my authority? I am the headmistress of Evernight!" It was Balthazar who answered her by casually slinging his crossbow back upon his shoulder so that it just happened to be aimed straight at Mrs. Bethany. He wasn't threatening her, exactly, but it was very clear that he wasn't going to back down. As she jerked upright in shock, Balthazar drawled, "School's out.