Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas S. Monson

Study with purpose, both in church and in school. Write down your goals and what you plan to do to achieve them. Aim high, for you are capable...

Thomas Sowell

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Thomas Sowell

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Thomas Sowell

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.

Robert Morley

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

Robert Lacey

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Robert Klein

I'd walk into the school, smell that institutional smell of the tomato soup, peanut butter, disinfectant, and boys room. Pass the lunchroom, see the familiar lunchroom lady with the white dress and net on her hair. At the end of 50 years of distinguished service the Board of Education gives her a bronze net - with her name on it. It stems from the Board of Education rule to keep her hair out of the food.

Robert Kennedy

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.

Robert Greene

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

Robert B. Laughlin

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Robert Baden-Powell

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

Robert Barry

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.

Rob Paulsen

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.

Rob McKenna

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Rob Lowe

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

Richard Louv

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

Richard M. Nixon

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Rian Johnson

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

Ricardo Semler

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

Rich Lowry

We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate.

Ray Winstone

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

Robert D. Hare

Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

RJ Mitte

I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.

RJ Mitte

Most people had high school - I had Breaking Bad.

Roald Dahl

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Richard Powers

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Richard Rodriguez

But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.

Richard Rohr

The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.

Richard Land

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

Tucker Max

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

Tucker Max

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

Tullian Tchividjian

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.