Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Baca

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Joe Baca

The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

Joe Biden

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

Joan Collins

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

Joan Collins

Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.

Jimmy Page

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

Jim Stafford

Yes, I took a remedial algebra course in college. I struggled in math in high school and didn’t have confidence to plunge in with a for-credit algebra course. The remedial course gave me a lot of confidence so that when I took the for-credit algebra course it was fairly easy and I got a ‘B,’ of which I remain proud today!

Jim Rogers

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

Louie Gohmert

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

Loudon Wainwright III

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

John Daly

I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.

John Cusack

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

John Cusack

I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.

Linwood Barclay

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.

Lindsey Shaw

Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.

Linda Vester

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

Linda Cardellini

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

Lilith Saintcrow

He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.

Lil Wayne

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

Leon Botstein

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

Leo Tolstoy

At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

Leo Tolstoy

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Leeza Gibbons

The energy and commitment I've experienced from the Paul Mitchell Schools is overwhelming. I love working with them to create the magic it takes to make a difference.

Lauren Groff

You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

Lauren Conrad

In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.

Lauren Conrad

I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.

Lauren Conrad

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

Larry King

Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

Levon Helm

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

Lewis Black

When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.

Lewis Black

One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.

Lewis Black

If there is hell, it was modeled after junior high school.

Lewis Carroll

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.