School Quotes - page 6

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school? (Emanuel Celler)
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. View quote
Eric Allin Cornell
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. View quote
Eric Allin Cornell
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. View quote
Eric Allin Cornell
Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace. View quote
Eddie Bernice Johnson
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. View quote
Fred Savage
I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride. View quote
Gwen Stefani
In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge. View quote
Haile Gebrselassie
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. View quote
Herb Ritts
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach. View quote
Harry Mathews
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. (Levon Helm)
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. View quote
Lionel Blue
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem. View quote
Louise Slaughter
If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper. View quote
Lynn Johnston
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school. View quote
Leigh Steinberg
High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again. View quote
Marguerite Moreau
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car. View quote
Mary Cheney
I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked. View quote
Obie Trice
You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something. View quote
Owen Hart
It's like going back to school. You know, autumn Time for Harry Potter. View quote
Robbie Coltraine
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school. (Robert Jay Lifton)
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. View quote
Ruben Hinojosa
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through. View quote
Randy Harrison
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems. View quote
Shannon Miller
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot. View quote
Shelley Duvall