Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Markey

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

Elizabeth Edwards

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

Elena Kagan

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

Dominic Monaghan

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

Dito Montiel

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

Dionne Warwick

I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.

Dave Pelzer

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

David James

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Ahmet Zappa

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

Seven interceptions has got to be a school record.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Leland Orser

It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.

Walter Benjamin

Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

Banksy

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.

Banksy

If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

Laura Linney

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

Mayim Bialik

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

Vera Farmiga

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

Amy Winehouse

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Mark Cuban

Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.

Mark Cuban

I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.

August Wilson

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

Alexander Wang

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

Alia Shawkat

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

Alexander Haig

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Adolf Hitler

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.