Top 1200 Secondary School Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

At school people found it quite funny that I did ballroom, but I recently went to my school reunion and all they wanted to talk about was ballroom and 'Strictly.'

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably.

In law school, we studied the famous book 'Getting to Yes,' co-written by the head of the Harvard Law School Negotiation Project.

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and when I went to boarding school, I'd either be there or Scotland.

I do school on set and then when I come home I go back to school and kind of balance it out. One day I'll be 18 and then I won't have to do it.

High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student... but I think it's learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.

I maybe convinced my parents to let me cut school once, but definitely, in college, I cut school a lot.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school... In fashion, one day you're in, the next you're out.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

As long as I really stay on top of my school work, which I'm for the most part able to do, it's really no problem, me missing school.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'

Always feeling secondary and just being a voice rather than known as the song writer and artist... it's been a challenge to even get music videos of most of the features I'm on, so I'm pleased people are starting to recognise me as an artist in my own right.

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.

The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

When I was able to come to a school that not only has some of the best athletics but the best academics, I wanted to make sure I didn't let this school down.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China are going to school 25, 30, 35 more days a year. They're just working harder than us. So, we need more time, particularly for disadvantaged children, who aren't getting those supports at home.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.