Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is really important for a school to do this, because it makes you look at yourself and the services you offer.

It set this up at this school 20 years ago.

I took her for granted. I thought I'd see her on Tuesday at school.

Stacey Farber

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

Amy Lee

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years-in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

Gretchen Mol

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

Gordon Brown

On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.

Gordon Brown

David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

Gordon B. Hinckley

What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

Geri Halliwell

In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.

Herb Ritts

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

Henry David Thoreau

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

H. L. Hunt

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

Jillian Bell

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.

Jill Soloway

There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!

Jill Soloway

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

Jillian Michaels

I come from the school of being (stereotyped) since I was five years old. And I know that I should not be putting my personal issues on the table or letting them effect my work.

Jill Scott

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

Jessica Ennis

It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy!

Jessica Chastain

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

Jeremy Davies

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Jeremy Bonderman

To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

Jennifer Carpenter

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

Jennifer Carpenter

In school, I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.

Jeff Sessions

In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.

Jeff Sessions

I went to law school at Alabama and I grew up a loyal Auburn fan. I'm one of the few that wrestles with those issues sometimes, but we're really proud of them. Like the University of Alabama has almost doubled its enrollment.

Jeff Hawkins

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

Jeff Goldblum

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Jean Toomer

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

Jerry Spinelli

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

Jerry Spinelli

When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

Jerry Seinfeld

With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'