Student Quotes

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. (Sylvester Stallone)
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. View quote
H. L. Mencken
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. View quote
James Henry Breasted
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. View quote
Lisa See
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight student? View quote
Sania Mirza
Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu. View quote
Edward Said
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. View quote
Og Mandino
Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. View quote
James A. Garfield
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything. (Bill O'Reilly)
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. View quote
Daniel J. Siegel
You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. View quote
Jacques Pepin
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. View quote
Georges Pompidou
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. View quote
Conrad Hall
You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student. View quote
Elisabeth Rohm
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. View quote
Elton Gallegly
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. View quote
Rod Taylor
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity. (Sally Kirkland)
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's. View quote
Steve Case
Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis. View quote
Jean Chrétien
The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City. View quote
Jean Chrétien
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. View quote
Paulo Coelho