Top 1200 Public School Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I did fine in school. School was cool until I started personally rebelling.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

It's so important to the public to get an honest press. The press - the public doesn't believe you people anymore.

I still remember going to school on game day with my high school jersey on.

Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

I keep my emotions to myself. I have never lost my temper in public, I have never wept in public.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.

It was hard to leave my school. I've been going to the same school since kindergarden.

One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.

I'm not a guy who is able to criticise anyone in public but I am not a guy who promotes individuals in public.

I love St. John's Prep as a school. I like the people there, it's a great school.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

For me, it's important to ask what are you making, and what's the public's relationship to that. And I say public relationship because I don't really care so much about any sort of reception.

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.

I never bunked school. School was always the most special place for me.

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns home to practice and I couldn't afford to buy one. He gave my friend, Tyrone, a tuba and he gave me a junior high saxophone for each of us to use at Performing Arts High School with. My audition piece was selections from Rocky. We were not sophisticated. But we had some spirit about it. We enjoyed it, and it was a way out.

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.

English was always my favorite subject in middle school and high school.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

I played cricket at primary school but hardly at all at high school. I was more of a footballer.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

Even at recess, in elementary school, it was just a known thing that I was one of the fastest in the school.

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

I went back to school for the end of eighth grade and for all of high school, which was awesome.

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. That's because I am proud of our public school teachers - including my niece who teaches down in Louisiana - just as I am proud of our nation's education system.

The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school biology courses in the United States. If the theory is thought of in this way, one should not be surprised if a judge at some point decides that teaching evolutionary theory violates the Constitutional principle of neutrality with respect to religion.

My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.