Quotes and Sayings About School

Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.
-- Alison Lurie

#Self Esteem #School #Independent

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.
-- Alison Moyet

#School #Kids #Class

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.
-- Alison Moyet

#Jobs #School #Training

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Children #War #School

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
-- Allan Bloom

#School #Ignorant #Students

[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.
-- Allan McLeod Cormack

#School #Jeans #Tennis

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school.
-- Allegra Versace

#Mom #School #My Mom

I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. That’s not being a warmonger. It’s being a realist.
-- Allen West

#Crush #Girl #School

To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.
-- Allison Glock

#Girl #Mom #School

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.
-- Allison Williams

#Jobs #School #Done

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.
-- Ally Carter

#Girl #School #Spy

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.
-- Ally Carter

#School #Doors #Spy

Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.
-- Ally Carter

#Team #School #Lacrosse

It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!
-- Allyson Felix

#School #Thinking #Years

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.
-- Alma Adams

#Teacher #Children #School

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Real #School #Psychology

The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure
-- Alois Podhajsky

#Horse #Art #School

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
-- Alonzo Church

#School #Math #Goes On

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.
-- Alonzo Mourning

#Basketball #School #Thinking

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#School #Pride #America

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Jobs #School #Years

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#School #Black #Progress

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
-- Alton Brown

#School #Doors #Video

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
-- Alvin Lee

#School #Guitar #Practice

My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore.
-- Aly Raisman

#School #Work Out #Understanding

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.
-- Alyson Hannigan

#School #Fame #Academy

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.
-- Amanda Burton

#Drama #School #Cutting

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.
-- Amanda Burton

#Drama #School #Sitting

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
-- Amanda Hocking

#Taken #Writing #School

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.
-- Amanda Holden

#Tattoo #School #Ears