Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Mario Balotelli

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.

Mario Andretti

You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

Marilyn Manson

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Marilyn Manson

I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

Mae Whitman

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!

Mae West

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

Freddie Highmore

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

Frank Murphy

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

George Chuvalo

When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do well, the future you see is bleak. It's tough to find an honour student in trouble with the law. We have to feel that we're of value and we get that from people reacting to our prudence.

George Carlin

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

George Carlin

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

Christopher Darden

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

Christopher Darden

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

Christopher Fry

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Christopher Eccleston

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

Christopher Eccleston

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Christine Taylor

All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

Christina Milian

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school

Christina Applegate

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

Christina Ricci

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

Christian McKay

I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

Chris Rock

I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing.

Chris Rock

I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

Chris Rock

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

Chris Rock

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

Chris Matthews

I tried to talk to the graduates who haven`t figured what they`re going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they`ve got pretty much figured where they`re headed in life.But there are so many kids out there, that are just going,they`re still kids. They`ve always been promoted from grade to grade.

Chris Hemsworth

I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

Gerard Way

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

Gerard Way

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

Gerard Way

I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.

Gerard Way

It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function

Hayden Panettiere

I love to learn. But just going back into school because of what I do I'm so set in this path that I'm on right now and I'm so excited about it and I love doing it so much that I like to focus myself on one thing at a time.