Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cleese

When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

John Bright

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

John Buchan

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.

M. Russell Ballard

Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities.

Luther Vandross

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

Lupe Fiasco

When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.

John Cena

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

Orson Scott Card

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

You go look at the Academies and their school is functioning,

Robert Kiyosaki

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Robert Kiyosaki

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Robert Kiyosaki

I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.

Robert Kiyosaki

One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

Seth Rogen

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

Charles Haynes

This is not a Sunday school course. I think the legislature didn't do its homework, didn't think about the ramifications of this.

Taylor Swift

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

Taylor Swift

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

Taylor Swift

So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to sleepovers? More awkward. Braces? Awkward. Gain a lot of weight before you hit the growth spurt? Awkward. Frizzy hair, don't embrace the curls yet? Awkward. Try to straighten it? Awkward!So many phases!

Steve Stockman

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

Stephen Malkmus

When I was in high school, I was a late bloomer. And just like all those supermodels who said they were gawky and no one liked them, that was me - metaphorically. And so I was ready to rise like a phoenix in later times.

Stephen Leacock

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

Stephen King

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

Stephen King

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

Ellar Coltrane

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

Ella Henderson

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

Ray Romano

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

Ray LaHood

Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids at the park - all without having to get in your car.

Ray Kurzweil

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

Ray Lewis

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

Raquel Welch

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

Rashida Jones

I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.