Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Vinny Guadagnino

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

Vinny Guadagnino

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

Vinny Guadagnino

I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.

Wayne LaPierre

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk,

Wayne LaPierre

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

Wayne LaPierre

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

Van Jones

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

Van Morrison

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [ A Period of Transition ] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Van Morrison

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Ursula Andress

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

Tyler Posey

I was never really unpopular in high school.

Ty Burrell

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

Ty Cobb

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.