Top 1200 School Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

I was always super outgoing, loud, the social butterfly of my high school and elementary school.

Most people I was at school with, if they saw me on telly, wouldn't know I'd been at school with them.

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class at school. In Australia, a lot of students study to the end of year 10, but don't go on to the final year, and I was asked to leave the school because they just thought I wasn't performing well enough. I used to sneak off to play piano, and defy the rules of the school.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

I've had a righteous streak since as long as I can remember. I never tolerated bullying from kids or authority, no matter the case. I got into trouble for calling things how I saw it in my early years at Catholic school, but I couldn't help myself.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

When I was in school, I would participate in almost every possible competition. I also went on to represent my school and college.

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.

I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.

School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island.

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.

I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

I went to a school two hours away from where I lived because it was the best rugby school in the country.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and tried to go to school. That was pretty rough, but I got a lot of experience playing music.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.

I played for my first church service when I was nine years old. I was sufficiently tall to be able to reach the pedals. The first hymn I played was Bringing in the Sheaves, and to this day I can play it in any key. I graduated to a Hammond organ a few years later when we went to another church, and then in high school came one of the loves of my life, the pipe organ. The sound of the pipe organ still gives me a thrill, whether soft strings or drowning out the orchestra as in Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra.

It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

Music was not always my fan. Sometimes there were lean years, years where I was uncertain if I was doing the right or wrong thing. And years where there wasn't the acceptance, years of economic hardships, and failures. That's when you get to know either who you are, what you're made of, or what's inside of you. If you don't probe deeper, you'll never know, and you can't go on.

I worked while in high school and college so that I could pay for school. I also had loans.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

Northwestern was never known as a sports school. I was proud to add a national title to the school.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

Most girls spend most of their time at school. If real change comes from hearing our voices, it has to start in school, but school is a place where black girls tend to experience microaggressions. Microaggressions are not always obvious, ugly, or terrible things, but they make you feel as though your voice does not matter.

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.