Top 1200 School Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

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

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.

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.

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.

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.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

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.

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

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

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

It is unacceptable that so many students who are juggling school, work, and family life are also going hungry.

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.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

Cycling is a good school for life. It makes you hard and gives you ambition, but you can never say you've arrived.

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.

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.'

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I love Alain de Botton and listen to his little 'School of Life' YouTube vids as I do the dishes.

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

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

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

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.

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

I didn't have a school life like everyone else because I started working at a young age. That's what I regret.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work, And nothing shirk. Should someone else outshine This dullard head of mine, Should I be sad? I will be glad. To do my best Is Thy behest. Some day the bell will sound, Some day my heart will bound, As with a shout That school is out And lessons done, I homeward run.

In five years, I completed grade school. Even when I was a young boy, I had a plan for my life.

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.

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

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.

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

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

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

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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

There's planets, life in the universe. You don't talk about that in high school - or maybe I skipped class that day.

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.

Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.

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!

Maybe high school would have been a good time to have a little Dylan McKay in my life.

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

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

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

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.