Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Vic Snyder

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

Vicente Fox

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

Vernon L. Smith

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Richard Bach

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

Robert Fulghum

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.

Robert Frost

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Robert Benchley

The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. ... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it.

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.

Robert Bork

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

Robert Bly

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Rita Wilson

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Rita Dove

As an African-American, as a woman I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.

Rita Dove

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Rita Dove

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

Rita Rudner

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

Rick Mercer

Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.

Rick Mercer

It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.

Richard Donner

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

Richard Ernst

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Rene Redzepi

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

Thucydides

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

Thomas Huxley

The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.

Thomas Eakins

I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

Timothy Leary

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

Timothy Leary

We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.