Top 1200 School Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

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?

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 believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

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!

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

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.

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.

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

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

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

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

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

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 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.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

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.

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.

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

I never wanted to be a rapper. I want to be in the movies. I want to own buildings.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

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

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school. At 17 and three months I went to the Old Vic School in London. This most remarkable and brilliant drama school lasted only six years because the Old Vic Theatre hadn't the money to go on funding it.

I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

if they take half the buildings that they use to? praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

We expect too much of new #? buildings , and too little of ourselves.

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.

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

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.

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.

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

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high 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'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

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.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

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

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

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