Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jackson

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

Michael Cudlitz

I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I'm a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on 'Beverly Hills 90210' for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.

Michael Crichton

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

Michael Crichton

Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

Mia Maestro

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

Melissa Leo

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

Melissa Joan Hart

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

Michel de Montaigne

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Michel de Montaigne

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Michael Sandel

Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially.

Michael Rady

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

Michael Rosenbaum

I was pretty much a homebody; didn`t really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

Michael N. Castle

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

Michael N. Castle

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Mark Twain

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Mark Twain

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

Mark Twain

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Marian Wright Edelman

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

Marguerite Moreau

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

Margrethe II of Denmark

Luther and the Reformation were of fundamental importance to Denmark. We Danes are still Lutherans today. We spoke about him a lot in school, and we feel very close to him.

Martin Lewis Perl

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

Martin Lewis Perl

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

Mark Indelicato

I never ever played the lead role in a play, except at school. I guess the industry that we're in, boys that look like me don't get the lead role.

Mark Knopfler

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

Mark Hoppus

I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.

Mark Hoppus

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

Mikhail Bakunin

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.

Miguel de Unamuno

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

Miguel de Unamuno

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

Ned Vizzini

I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

Naomi Campbell

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.