School quotes

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You smell that Mags...[I don’t see any cows] Clearly you haven’t met the high school girls.

- Billy Hargrove

I've cried twice in my life. Once when I was seven and hit by a school bus. And then again when I heard that Li'l Sebastian has passed.

- Ron Swanson

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

- Evan Sayet

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

- Catherine Helen Spence

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

- Kate Moss

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

- Ed Pastor

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

- Brandi Chastain

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

- Blake Lively

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

- Quentin Tarantino

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

- Jennifer Granholm

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

- Katherine Dunn

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

- Christina Aguilera

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.

- Miroslav Vitous

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

- Donna Shalala

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

- John Grierson

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

- Sean Connery

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

- Jonathan Kozol

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

- Michael Gambon

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

- R. A. Salvatore

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

- Vivien Leigh

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

- Lenny Kravitz

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

- Sam Donaldson

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

- Vernon Jordan

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

- Colin Powell

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

- Major Owens

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.

- Lynn Johnston

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

- Jane Addams

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

- Sanford I. Weill

It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend.

- Mila Kunis