Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas G. Stemberg

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

Thomas Frank

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

Thomas Friedman

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Thomas Friedman

C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.

Thomas J. Sargent

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Ville Valo

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Vince Cable

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.

Vin Diesel

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

Victoria Justice

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.

Victoria Abril

I didn't go to school a lot.

Victor Cruz

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

Victor Cruz

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

Sam Harris

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

Sam Harris

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

S. E. Hinton

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

Russell Means

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Russell Means

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

Ronald Reagan

I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference.

Ronald Reagan

The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

Ron Paul

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

Ron Paul

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Ron Paul

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Sam Neill

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

Sally Hawkins

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

Sally Phillips

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

Roy H. Williams

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

Rory McIlroy

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

Ron Rash

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Susan Sarandon

I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through.