Famous Quotes & Sayings

John James Audubon

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

John Irving

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

John Hughes

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

John Hurt

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

John Heywood

Tell tales out of school.

John Hodgman

Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.

John Hawkes

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do

John Hawkes

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

John Henrik Clarke

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

John Henrik Clarke

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

John Henrik Clarke

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

Ayn Rand

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Dikembe Mutombo

I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

Edvard Grieg

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

James Payn

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

Every year, the schools were taking another week out of our summers. It was hot. So I said, 'You know what? I've had enough.

Dean Winters

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

Alexandra Adornetto

At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!

This is a big thing for our team, school and our state.

They have it in the schools over there.

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.

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.

Hayden Panettiere

I've found that I really don't like - as most people don't about school that there are subjects which are necessary to learn but you don't really want to learn on top of those ones that you do want to learn. So to take a class for me, a class or two on subjects that I'm really, really interested in and curious about would be awesome.

Hayden Panettiere

I'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

Hayden Panettiere

I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.

Hayden Panettiere

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

Hayden Panettiere

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.