Top 1200 School Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

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

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public 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.

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 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.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

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 think there's a part of me that might be my alter ago, like the carefree, do-what-he-wants kind of guy, because I've been so restrained most of my life, going to Catholic school and being the good son and the good husband. It's a fun escape route for me sometimes to lead that life.

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

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.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school. At 17 and three months I went to the Old Vic School in London. This most remarkable and brilliant drama school lasted only six years because the Old Vic Theatre hadn't the money to go on funding it.

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.

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 was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

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!

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.

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

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

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

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

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 ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

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.

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

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

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.

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarity in adult life. The few people I know who weren't picked on in school are people I find I can't relate to on much more than a surface level. There's a sensitivity that comes with feeling like an outsider at some point in your life.

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.

From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

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

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.

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.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.

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 loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

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

Oftentimes, even myself as I've come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

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.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

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.

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?

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

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