Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne LaPierre

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

Wayne LaPierre

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

Van Jones

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

Van Morrison

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [ A Period of Transition ] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Van Morrison

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Ursula Andress

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

Tyler Posey

I was never really unpopular in high school.

Ty Burrell

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

Ty Cobb

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

Twyla Tharp

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

William Glasser

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

William Glasser

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

William Graham Sumner

The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.... Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

William Godwin

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

Wilford Brimley

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

Warren Zevon

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

Stephen Chow

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

Stephen Colbert

I teach Sunday school, motherf*****.

Stephen Colbert

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?

Stephen Colbert

I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.

Stephen Colbert

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

Stella Maeve

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

Spencer Abraham

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Thomas Haden Church

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Thomas Harris

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

Tim Scott

As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

Tim Walberg

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

Thomas G. Stemberg

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

Thomas Frank

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

Thomas Friedman

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Thomas Friedman

C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.