Top 1200 School Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so.

I decided that I wanted to be an artist in middle school, and although my mom wasn't fully on board with me becoming a trainee, she really supported me throughout the years and is very proud of me now.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.

It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.

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

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

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!

People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of 'Outlander' for years and years and years.

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

The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there.

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.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

It's an honor, when you've been hustling in the business for years, years and years, it doesn't matter when it comes - you're just glad it came.

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.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

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

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

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.

Taking a toddler to school is one of the most satisfying moments in my many years in public life. There is no better joy than laying the foundations of a strong future for these little children.... Friends, let us all become partners in this quest for ensuring education for all!

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

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

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.

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.'

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.

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.

You're just constantly outputting, and giving all you know so you don't have time to look inside of yourself and to really reflect. The four years at drama school really gave me that time and space.

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

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 went to university every day for five years. I thought, 'I must - must - go to school.' Look, my hands, these are like guns. When you have guns, you can relax. But in the future, you need something else.

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

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

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

Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could.

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

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to me. One reason I took this movie on is because I saw it as a really great opportunity to revisit my own past through this character.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

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

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

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 lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?

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

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

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 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 had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

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.