Top 1200 School Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.'

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto, huge city, massive buildings just stretching so tall.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn't all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.

I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.