Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Wade

I've just had too much school work to do.

Erykah Badu

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

Ernest Istook

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

Erma Bombeck

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

Erma Bombeck

Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.

Erin Richards

I've got dyslexia. When I was in school, it wasn't really recognized as much as it is today; I'm really glad that people are a lot more aware of it now.

Florence Nightingale

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Florence Nightingale

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

Flavor Flav

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Flavor Flav

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

Fisher Ames

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

Fiona Apple

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

Henry Mintzberg

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

Henry Louis Gates

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

Henry Louis Gates

I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

Henry Miller

The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.

Henry Miller

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Henny Youngman

A person asked me, How do you prepare for the stage? I told her, Well, it's like this. You go to diction school. They teach you to fill your mouth with marbles and talk right through the marbles. Each day you take one marble out. When you've lost all your marbles...

Caterina Fake

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

Cat Stevens

I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.

Cat Stevens

Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive

Catharine Beecher

... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.

Cassandra Clare

I prefer the school of life.

Cassandra Clare

Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew at him and hugged him. Now that was the way sisters were supposed to act, Clary thought. Not all stiff and weird and peculiar, but happy and loving. Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing." "I'm fine." Clary abandoned the attempt. "Are you sure? You looked sort of… contorted.

Mike Woods

Everybody's been walking around school singing the songs for three weeks.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

It is really important for a school to do this, because it makes you look at yourself and the services you offer.

It set this up at this school 20 years ago.

I took her for granted. I thought I'd see her on Tuesday at school.

Stacey Farber

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

Amy Lee

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years-in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.