Top 1200 Great Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

I want my children to attend inclusive schools where diversity is respected and acknowledged as a sign of strength.

Schools insist that everything is under their purview - what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground.

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

I grew up in Denmark and was fortunate enough to have access to good schools and thoughtful teachers.

The Department of Education should be disbanded and the resources either returned to the taxpayers or put into the schools.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

I want my kids to go to good schools, so I put pressure on myself to work harder.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Many white-collar workers are lucky enough to have creative-class jobs that are satisfying, which is great as long as you're still able to carve out true, work-free leisure at some point. But there's been a kind of sneaky reframing of work as play as the Silicon Valley model has been imported into other fields. Now you see adult offices that look like nursery schools, and staff paintball parties, work cultures that encourage the "We're a family here!" fantasy while preventing workers from going home at a reasonable hour to be with their actual families.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

?Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools?not weapons of mass destruction.?

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

I obviously would love to play with a great, great, great quarterback.

Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

I attended five different Jewish day schools as a teenager. I mean, I was trained as a hazan!

When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

It's real simple, if we don't give our schools the tools to compete then we'll never improve.

In schools, churches and local communities, Americans are participating in their democracy by getting others to as well.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Visiting schools, I'm lucky enough to see the impact that education has in transforming young lives.

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.