Famous Quotes & Sayings

Didi Conn

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

Joe Anderson

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

Bitsie Tulloch

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

Birdman

Shoot up everything except a school or a playground

Bill Frisell

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

Betty Smith

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

Betty Smith

She was surprised at how tiny the school seemed now. She supposed it was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.

Betty Friedan

I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't.

Betty Friedan

My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school.

Betty Friedan

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

Benjamin Tucker

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Bill Gates

The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.

Bill Gates

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

Bill Gates

Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

Bill Gates

Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

Bill Gates

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Bill Gates

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Bill Gates

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Bill Gates

Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

Bill Gates

America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

Bill Gates

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

Chaz Bono

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

Chelsea Handler

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied—so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

Chase Utley

I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.

Chauncey Billups

I'm never nervous. Not in high school, not in college. That's just the way I am.

Chaske Spencer

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

Charlie Puth

I treat Hollywood as my high school.

Charlie Puth

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

Charlie Puth

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

Calvin Johnson

I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough.

Callan McAuliffe

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

Callan McAuliffe

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

Calvin Trillin

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?