Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Tex

I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.

Joe Namath

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

Jodi Picoult

She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

Jodi Picoult

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Jodi Picoult

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

John Gresham Machen

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)

John Grisham

We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

John Green

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

John Green

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

John Green

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

Patti Smith

I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.

P. Chidambaram

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

P. Chidambaram

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

P. D. James

I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.

P. J. O'Rourke

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

Martin Filler

During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.

Mark Feuerstein

In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

Mark Foley

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

Mark Foley

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Mario Testino

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Martin Mayer

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

Nikki Sanderson

I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths, so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn't have a clue.

Nikki Reed

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

Nicole Polizzi

As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

Nicky Whelan

Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

Nicky Hilton

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.

Nico Tortorella

I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.

Nicki Minaj

Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane

Nick Mancuso

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

Nick Park

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

Nick Offerman

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

Nick Offerman

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

Matt Gonzalez

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.