Top 1200 School Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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

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

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.

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

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 left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.

If you're not mechanically in the community with people from the community trying to talk about our party, talk about school choice, talk about SBA loans for business owners - if someone's not there, nothing is going to change. You also need to have the tone ... people believe obviously you like them. If people don't think you like them, then they're not going to vote for you.

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.

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 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.

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.

I think Jorge Borges said that when Argentineans die they turn into angels and go and live in Uruguay. But for the rest of South America, you have to say that it's getting there - becoming civilized - and will get there. It's had a real grit war in history. The choice between those societies until recently was the choice between tyranny and chaos. Everyone understood that. You've got to have a strong man, or it's going to be a mess.

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.

The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

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.

I went to high school every single day in an all-male Jesuit school at McQuaid with short hair, no beard, suit jacket, tie.

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.

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

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.

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

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

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.

Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

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

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 in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

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

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

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 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.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

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.

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!

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

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

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

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.

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

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 think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

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

Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

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.

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 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.

His middle name's Pax. When he's older, if he wants to go by Paxton, Pax, Tiger, he has that choice. So, he has no choice not to be average with a name like that. It could go horribly wrong - he could be a DJ in the Midwest with the name Tiger - we'll see.

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.

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 was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.