Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

Evelyn Waugh

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

Evelyn Waugh

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Evelyn Waugh

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Eva Vertes

I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.

Evan Glodell

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

Eugene Levy

I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.

Eugene H. Peterson

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Ezra Koenig

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

Jhonen Vasquez

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

Jhene Aiko

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

Grover Cleveland

If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.

Graham Hancock

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

Graham Greene

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

Graham Greene

I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

Giuliana Rancic

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

Gil Scott-Heron

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

Gerald McRaney

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

Harriet Martineau

It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. But I am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest.

Harper Lee

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

Halle Berry

I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.

Halle Berry

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

Gregory Peck

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

Hope Partlow

I actually only went to high school for six weeks. I lost sleep deciding on what I would wear the next day or who I had to impress. I was just a much more down-to-earth, relaxed person once I decided not to care what people thought of me.

Homaro Cantu

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

Ignazio Silone

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Ian Mckellen

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.

Iain Duncan Smith

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

Iain Duncan Smith

We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

Hugh Miller

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Hugo Chavez

Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.