Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas J. Sargent

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Ville Valo

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Vince Cable

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.

Vin Diesel

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

Victoria Justice

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.

Victoria Abril

I didn't go to school a lot.

Victor Cruz

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

Victor Cruz

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

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.