Top 1200 Great Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I’d get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘Hey Jerry, we’re going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.’

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.

I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Kerala is doing well because here the kids are encouraged to compete in sports, both by parents and teachers in schools.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

Obviously when you come into competition with other schools and you become aware of anything that concerns you, you have an obligation to say something.

I was 20, naive and foolish. I spent a year auditioning for various drama schools but RADA was the one I liked most.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

I've seen public charter schools give parents a valuable option for students in Alabama and across the country.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn't be there if their school didn't care.

What is so attractive about Uganda for missionaries is that they have free rein. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, the parliament.

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.

Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I don't feel God can truly bless America again until we start praising him in our schools.

When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.