Top 1200 Great Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I've done a lot of drama, and as a lifestyle, going to work and laughing every day is just great. It's great for your mental health, and it's great for setting up a nice year.

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

Regardless of what people think of the WWE, we're great at storylines; we're great at drawing money. We're great at causing controversy, and when the other sports do it, they usually do better. It keeps it interesting and makes it fun for the fans.

We must hire more social workers and counselors in our schools than police officers.

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.

I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

All my career, I've played in great teams - Marseille was a great team, Arsenal was a great thing, but we never won a trophy. With Manchester City, first year, it happened, and it was just a big relief.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.

Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

My favorite movie out of the old movies was 'Escape to Witch Mountain.' We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director... it was a great experience.

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.