Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Sharpton

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

We had to take off our shoes after school to save wear on the soles.

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Afrojack

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

Johnny Damon

We thought there was going to be a clear-cut winner and a clear-cut loser. This tiebreaking stuff - you got to go so school for it.

Jim Johnson

We know that school is a lot more than test scores,

Ram Dass

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

Kurt Vonnegut

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

Kurt Vonnegut

I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.

Kurt Vonnegut

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

Kurt Vonnegut

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

Kurt Vonnegut

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

Kurt Vonnegut

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Kurt Vonnegut

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

David Geffen

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

David Boaz

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

David Boaz

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

David Berkowitz

Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.

David Boreanaz

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

David Bolinsky

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

David Bowie

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

David Bowie

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

David Berg

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

David Beckham

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.

Davey Havok

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

Dave Winfield

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

David A. Bednar

All of us now are serving and will continue to serve as lifelong missionaries. We are missionaries every day in our families, in our schools, in our places of employment, and in our communities. Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.

Dave Grohl

A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: "Okay, you know what? I'm going to play music, and hopefully I'll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that's what I'm going to do."

Dave Grohl

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

David Wright

People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

David Oyelowo

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

Dav Pilkey

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

Darius Rucker

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.