School Quotes

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

~ Nelson Goodman

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

~ Maya Lin

I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair.

~ Stacey Farber

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

~ Loretta Swit

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.

~ Peter Jackson

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

~ Emma Watson

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

~ Dimebag Darrell

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

~ Channing Tatum

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

~ Jason Alexander

'Glee' is very easy to clown because I feel like it's just crumbling. 'Smash!' 'Smash' is the ultimate. I love it because I'm all about theater. I did plays in high school and college, and it totally brings me back to that feeling: how excited you get on opening night, how it sucks when you're not learning the dance moves.

~ Retta

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

~ Esperanza Spalding

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

~ Junior Seau

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

~ Jamie Campbell Bower

School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food.

~ Richard J. Codey

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

~ Robert Atkins

Growing up the way I grew up, food was scarce. So when you had an opportunity to eat, you ate. When I graduated from high school and went to college, I weighed 160 pounds. So, I knew I had to put on the weight. I ate everything from fried food to fried chicken wings. When I came to Green Bay, I did the same thing because I was 172 pounds.

~ Donald Driver

I was one of the first six black kids to integrate a formerly all-white school. I remember being looked at all the time and people laughing at my hair. I was also very self-conscious about the food I had for lunch. I had egg sandwiches, and the other mothers gave kids fancy stuff like bologna and Marmite. It took about a year to settle in.

~ Petina Gappah

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

~ Louis C. K.

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

~ Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.

~ David Blunkett

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

~ Samantha Morton

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context.

~ Nicholas Kristof

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

~ Keanu Reeves

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

~ Jada Pinkett Smith

All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

~ Samantha Mumba

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

~ Jimmy Dean

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

~ Anthony Hamilton

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.

~ Robbie Coltraine

For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'

~ Lauren Graham

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

~ Stephen King

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

~ Bill Gates

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

~ Delmore Schwartz

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

~ Anna Deavere Smith

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

~ Bessie Coleman

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

~ William Butler Yeats

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

~ Barbra Streisand

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

~ Diane Ackerman

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

~ Quentin Tarantino

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

~ Marsha Thomason