Top 1200 School Reunion Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.

We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and when I went to boarding school, I'd either be there or Scotland.

High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student... but I think it's learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school... In fashion, one day you're in, the next you're out.

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

Our ultimate goal with Real Models is to open a school and I would love to do it here in Miami, open up a charter school.

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.

I do school on set and then when I come home I go back to school and kind of balance it out. One day I'll be 18 and then I won't have to do it.

Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'

I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave.

I maybe convinced my parents to let me cut school once, but definitely, in college, I cut school a lot.

When I started making beats in the 7th grade - even through middle school and high school - I admired a lot of Shawty Redd, stuff like that, that real dark, trap sound.

I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.

My dad worked for a theatre company that was two minutes away from my primary school, so I'd just walk there after school and watch the rehearsals. I think that's probably when I fell in love with acting and telling stories.

I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

I always read interviews with people and they say I was a right joker at school, I was a right loner at school - but I was just kind of average.

I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China are going to school 25, 30, 35 more days a year. They're just working harder than us. So, we need more time, particularly for disadvantaged children, who aren't getting those supports at home.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

I've biked my whole life. We didn't have bus service when I was going to school in Holland, so I biked around 25 kilometers to school every day.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

As long as I really stay on top of my school work, which I'm for the most part able to do, it's really no problem, me missing school.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.