“In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.” ThinkingBelieveKidsSchoolMarriedAnomalies Author:Marcia Gay Harden
“My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f—ing Mercedes. You better f—ing believe it.” WayYearsBelieveI CanKidsSchoolFacesHouseDarkCitiesMorningGoneDegreesDaughterSittingDriversTake MeBusEvery MorningSmellyUptownCity Bus Author:Louis C. K.
“I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.” ThinkingWantKidsSchoolMiddleDecidedActressesCommunistThink Of MeMiddle SchoolFamous Actress Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.” PlayKidsSchoolThirdsLet MeProductionsAcceptedDancerGradesFourthRoofImpressiveElementary SchoolThird GradeFourth GradeFiddlersFiddler On The Roof Author:Lizzy Caplan
“What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly.” PeopleKidsSchoolRealizingMillionsWorstFameTenHigh SchoolScalesBulliedBeing Bullied Author:Megan Fox
“I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.” MadeImportantKidsSchoolRegretHigh SchoolGraduatesGraduating High SchoolGed Author:Christian Slater
“As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.” KnowsWantKindChildrenKidsSchoolYoungKnow HowTeacherImpactYoung ChildrenGood TeacherBad Teacher Author:Rachel Hurd-Wood
“I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.” WayFirstsKidsSchoolFunStuffCuttingWifeDadFirst TimeMy DadMy WifeCooksMakersItalianKnivesSauceOld SchoolPastaHomemadeNoodlesItalian FoodMeatballsMy Wife And Kids Author:Joey Fatone
“We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.” WorldKidsTodaySchoolReadingRecordsStudentsCollegeHighestHigh SchoolRateMathAll TimeScoreHigh School GraduationSchool Graduation Author:Barack Obama
“Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.” YearsKidsSchoolPastOpportunityChildhoodHabitVery GoodHolidayCandyDoing NothingUtopiaBedtimeUnlearnGood Habits Book:Dad Is Fat Source: Dad Is Fat
“My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.” FirstsKidsSchoolWaterResponsibilityMillionsTaxesFlowThirdsDollarsBusyEightLawyerMillion Dollars Author:Robert Shaw
“When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.” KidsSchoolEasyActingCareersCryGradesTranslate Author:Albert Brooks
“I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.” KidsSchoolNamesSpeakTeacherChildhoodTough Author:Giada De Laurentiis
“I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.” I CanKidsSchoolSeeingSonOvercomingMy SonMotivatedDisabilityLearning Disability Author:Jason Alexander
“Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.” FirstsImportantKidsSchoolRealizingCuttingMusic IsProgram Author:Steven Tyler
“In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.” YearsWellsKidsSchoolStudyHigh SchoolTheatreBlockFreshmanFreshman YearFreshman Year In High School Author:Donnie Wahlberg
“I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.” KindKidsSchoolBitsActingGroupsInsecurityHallsCircusUneducatedEducated And UneducatedMusic Hall Author:Rupert Graves
“You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do. And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldCountryRunningKidsSchoolRightsPoliticianDrugGunFatsForksBoozeCriminality Author:Vince Vaughn
“Britannia High is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school.” KidsSchoolTroubleStageSeriesSevenEdgy Author:Mitch Hewer
“When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.” WritingBookStoriesCareKidsSchoolDon't CareHeritageHistory Books Author:Miles Davis
“[On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.” LooksChildrenKidsTodaySchoolDestinyFrontsHigh SchoolGoldHotSizeGoldenPantsBootsSheetsSectionsSupermarketsOverloadDryersStilettosHot Pants Author:Jancee Dunn
“Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.” WantPlayKidsSchoolBlackWhite Author:Ice Cube
“I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.” KidsSchoolGirlCatholicGood GirlCliqueCatholic School Author:Taylor Cole
“I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.” KidsSchoolLaughingLessonsConcernedMy Family Author:Mathew Baynton
“I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.” ThinkingDreamKidsSchoolStrugglePromiseDecadesOverratedSchool Life Author:Tyne Daly
“I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.” KidsSchoolLondonPrimariesChairsPta Author:Arabella Weir
“There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.” DifferentStatesKidsSchoolCultureWonderfulAppreciateDiverseDifferent Cultures Author:Arabella Weir
“When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.” YearsDifferentKidsTodaySchoolResultsMillionsTypePlanesHaitiHaitian Author:Michel Martelly
“Youve got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.” FeelsKidsSchoolAreasLocalsOwnersSmall BusinessEducation SystemPublic EducationBusiness OwnersBest EducationSmall Business OwnersSchool Districts Author:Jon Tester
“I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!” KidsSchoolFacesPlansBeatsHardestKicksGood Times Author:Oliver Sykes