Quotes of School - somelinesforyou

“ I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. ”

- George Foreman

“ I felt like I was kind of back living a normal lifestyle, just with a regular job of going to the studio every day. That really was a break for me, actually. ”

- Avril Lavigne

“ I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school. ”

- Thomas Friedman

“ I think both teams are evenly matched, ... Both teams played real well. This is a typical game between the two schools. ”

- James Monroe

“ One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. ”

- Thomas More

“ They wouldn't run away when dogs were attacking them. They literally were hanging around the houses, and around the school, right in the downtown part of the community. ”

- David Suzuki

“ I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. ”

- Carl Sagan

“ The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. ”

- Tom Bodett

“ I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered. ”

- Gene Kelly

“ I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability. ”

- H. L. Hunt

“ I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities. They don't go away just because they call you a sex symbol. ”

- Shirley Manson

“ The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ”

- Horace Mann

“ I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium. ”

- Steve Nash

“ A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers? ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life. ”

- Emo Philips

“ A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ 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. ”

- Gwen Stefani

“ If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. ”

- Sarah Boseley

“ It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new. ”

- Sophia Loren

“ Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ If you want to have a happy life, take up giving as a hobby when you're young. ”

- Arthur F. Leneban

“ Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. ”

- Laura Towne

“ In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. ”

- Julianna Moore

“ That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. ”

- Evelyn Waugh
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