Top 1200 Prayer In School Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

Without federal standards for school lunches, candy bars, packaged snacks and soda can be offered to our children in school.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

At school, I was basically a loner, it was hard until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school and was gifted with freedom to do the things I really wanted to do.

I do school online. My favorite thing to do with school is to finish things and then watch it go away, especially when I am working on a laptop.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didnt want to go to private school.

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

My high school was in the private school league, and we played all our games at the college stadium. It wasn't like we filled it, but we got a good crowd.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I moved across the country when I was 16, so I left my high school and finished school online in order to pursue my acting more.

I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that's very clear.

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists, so I'm not the only one with this life style.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunday.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

I went to high school every single day in an all-male Jesuit school at McQuaid with short hair, no beard, suit jacket, tie.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

We all remember special days at school, whether it was going on a field trip, doing a science experiment, or performing in a school play.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.