Famous Quotes & Sayings

A third of the schools are still working to get those systems done.

At first, I didn't know what to think. And then at school Monday, everyone was talking about it and they were for it.

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

They have it in the schools over there.

It really welcomes us. We feel like we're part of the school now.

It's all over the map. Here in the D.C. area, schools don't get out until Thursday, making for a very short travel period.

For C.J., going to a place where he can go in and play was important, and he's getting to go to school for free.

Charles Haynes

This is not a Sunday school course. I think the legislature didn't do its homework, didn't think about the ramifications of this.

Sam Harris

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

Sam Harris

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

S. E. Hinton

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

Russell Means

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Russell Means

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

Ronald Reagan

I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference.

Ronald Reagan

The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

Ron Paul

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

Ron Paul

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Ron Paul

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Sam Neill

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

Sally Hawkins

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

Sally Phillips

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

Roy H. Williams

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

Rory McIlroy

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

Ron Rash

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Susan Sarandon

I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through.

Susan Sarandon

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.

Susan Sarandon

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Susan Orlean

I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

Susan Dey

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

Susan Choi

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.