School Quotes - page 2

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to and encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. (Indra Nooyi)

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Yogi Berra

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Leonardo DiCaprio

If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Frank Sinatra

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

Rodney Dangerfield

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Lenny Bruce

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Francis Ford Coppola

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

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Gerald Ford

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. (Ronald Reagan)

Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

George Mikes

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Thomas J. Sargent

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Shawn Ashmore

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Eugenio Montale

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

Zoe Kravitz

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

Kevin Mitnick

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.

Luke Harding

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Evelyn Waugh

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Dick Gregory

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that? (Mick Jagger)

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

Truman Capote

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

Jennifer Garner

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

Ambrose Bierce

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