Top 1200 School Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.

To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

School was like a hostile place. I just hated being at school. I think some people really thrive in that environment. I was a good student, but I just didn't enjoy school. I found it really tough.

The Shark Tank was one of the best buildings to play in, and we had a lot of memories there.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.

When I grew up in Cincinnati in 1974, the Board of Education set up the performing school, similar to the New York performing arts school, and it was in walking distance from my school.

When I was five-years-old I was jumping off two-story buildings.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.

Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

In Hawaii, after somebody introduces themselves, the next question is, 'What high school did you go to?' From there, it's either 'Oh, OK, it's cool, I know some family,' or it's trash-talking to the max, like 'my school is better than your school.' This is how it kind of is back there.

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

I did one year of school and I was doing correspondence school, which was actually another happy accident. Correspondence school is basically home school, but you teach yourself instead of your parents teaching you. I found that to be one of the most important things in my life is that I learned how to teach myself things. I feel like that's something that schools should actually teach.

I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.

I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

I'm a backup quarterback at the University of Dayton. I was a one-year starter in high school. I think I got the job in high school because our quarterback left and went to another school.

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.