Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Coogler

My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.

Rumer Willis

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.

Roy Barnes

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

Roy Barnes

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

Robert Jay Lifton

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Roddy Doyle

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Rodney Dangerfield

We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.

Rodney Dangerfield

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

Robertson Davies

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

Vivek Wadhwa

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Vivien Leigh

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

William Howard Taft

The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.

Will Smith

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

Will Smith

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Wayne Dyer

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

Walter de La Mare

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.

Virginia Woolf

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

Werner Herzog

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

Samuel Hahnemann

The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition -God knows which -dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.

Sally Ride

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

Sally Ride

The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy and chemistry and I continued to study those subjects through high school and college on into graduate school. That's what prepared me for being an astronaut; it actually gave me the qualifications to be selected to be an astronaut.

Salman Rushdie

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

Ryan White

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

Ryan White

The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

Ryan White

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

Rudolph A. Marcus

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Rudolph A. Marcus

I have always loved going to school.

Rudy Rucker

The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

Rudolf Steiner

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

Wendy Kopp

When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation — would jump at the chance to teach in urban and rural communities, their concerns, too, went unheard. My very greatest asset was that I simply did not understand what was impossible.

Wendy Kopp

The evidence would suggest that there are some great alternative certification programmes and some lousy ones. There are some wonderful traditional education schools, and some that aren't so effective. What's important is less the pathway than the impact on students.

Wendy Cope

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

Walton Goggins

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.