Top 1200 School Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

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

Northwestern was never known as a sports school. I was proud to add a national title to the school.

School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island.

The technologists and entrepreneurs I know are generally good people. If they were given a choice, 'Do your job and eliminate normal jobs' or 'Do your job and create abundant opportunities,' they would choose the latter. Most of them would happily even take a small hit to do so. But this isn't a choice they're given.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

I came from a private school, and public high school was the first time I ever went to a public school. So I went into it very preppy; I was wearing a lot of Abercrombie and Hollister. Then, my sophomore year, I started listening to rock bands. I had a boyfriend that took me to my first rock show, and I was just addicted to that.

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.

People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That’s why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don’t make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They’re hungry for leadership.

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.

I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

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

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

Most people I was at school with, if they saw me on telly, wouldn't know I'd been at school with them.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

I went to a school two hours away from where I lived because it was the best rugby school in the country.

All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think.

I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.

I was always super outgoing, loud, the social butterfly of my high school and elementary school.

I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class at school. In Australia, a lot of students study to the end of year 10, but don't go on to the final year, and I was asked to leave the school because they just thought I wasn't performing well enough. I used to sneak off to play piano, and defy the rules of the school.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

I worked while in high school and college so that I could pay for school. I also had loans.

When I was in school, I would participate in almost every possible competition. I also went on to represent my school and college.

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

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

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice. I know everybody mentions Azzedine Alaïa, but he's been going for a long time in the system - showing to people, selling to clients - and I think it's admirable how he's transformed it into his own system in a way, but it's still a system.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

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

Most girls spend most of their time at school. If real change comes from hearing our voices, it has to start in school, but school is a place where black girls tend to experience microaggressions. Microaggressions are not always obvious, ugly, or terrible things, but they make you feel as though your voice does not matter.

By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids.

I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.

I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.