Top 1200 School Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.

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

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.

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 elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.

I try to separate my modelling work from my school life because I don't want people to think of me differently or that I am a certain way because of it.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

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.

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

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

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

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

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

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

In the holidays at school, I used to go training with my dad every day. I used to see the hard work that went in behind what was an unbelievable Wigan team.

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.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

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

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 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 remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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