Top 1200 School Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Without federal standards for school lunches, candy bars, packaged snacks and soda can be offered to our children in school.

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.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

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 always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

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 have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

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 used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

We all remember special days at school, whether it was going on a field trip, doing a science experiment, or performing in a school play.

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

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.

At school, I was basically a loner, it was hard until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school and was gifted with freedom to do the things I really wanted to do.

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.

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.

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.

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?

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 was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I moved across the country when I was 16, so I left my high school and finished school online in order to pursue my acting more.

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.

I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

I have always dressed a little bit differently, even when I was in school. I would wear skirts over pants because I went to a Christian private school and wanted to wear short skirts, but we had to wear skirts below our knees, so I put on a pair of jeans underneath so I could wear the skirt, too. When you become an artist you have to be so aware of what you're wearing all the time, but I've definitely wanted to stay classy, girlie, and feminine - I won't walk around in my bra or trashy clothes. I don't feel attractive that way.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

My high school was in the private school league, and we played all our games at the college stadium. It wasn't like we filled it, but we got a good crowd.

I went to high school every single day in an all-male Jesuit school at McQuaid with short hair, no beard, suit jacket, tie.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

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

I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists, so I'm not the only one with this life style.

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

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

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.

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

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama 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 was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

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 born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.