Top 1200 School Library Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

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

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

I liked school except for having to get up early and, of course, high school drama!

Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman 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.'

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

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.

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.

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.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

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.

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

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

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

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 left school to go to so many trials. There was no point in me going to school because I was away all the time.

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.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

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

The school I went to was only famous for one thing... Peter Osgood went to that particular school. That's probably my earliest memory of the importance of football.

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

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.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

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

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 started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

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

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

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.

Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could.

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

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

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.

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

I always used to sing in the house and I went to school at Hywel Dda Primary School in Ely. I think they had a puppet-type show there and word got around I could sing. I sang at that puppet performance and used to sing in school. From there, it was in my blood. I didn't want to do anything else but sing.

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

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

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.