Top 1200 School Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

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.

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

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 hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

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

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.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.'

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.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

After passing out of the National School of Drama, I spent many years doing small-time roles in Bollywood.

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

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

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

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

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

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

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 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.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

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

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 enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

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 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.

By the time I graduated from high school, though, I was in a bit of a rebellious phase towards everything I had known growing up.

Each time we go through a major life change (getting married or divorced, moving, having a family, switching careers, starting a new business, going back to school), we experience a breakdown of our organizational systems. It's inevitable-we are dealing with a new set of realities-and it takes time to process the information and to actually see what there is to organize.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

My mother looked after me full-time when I was young, but as soon as I started school, she got a job in an office.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

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

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

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

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

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 was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.

Once I got into high school, any time I had to do a talk or a speech, I just loved being up in front of an audience, it was always a character. And then I discovered that an impersonation of the teacher was a really, really good way to get a laugh, and it would also get you good marks, because the teachers were always bored and loved to be the "teacher-parody." So that became my little trick at school, and I became known for doing that.

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

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.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.

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 at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

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.

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