Best School Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.”

Knows Trying Has Beens I Can School Loses Periods High School Tough Gains Weight Careful Be Careful Freshman After High School Life After High School

Author:Camilla Luddington

“I always remember liking school.”

School Remember

Author:Damon Lindelof

“My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.”

I Can Self School Self Esteem Lows Esteem Charm Low Self Esteem Narrators

Author:Elinor Lipman

“I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.”

Giving Trying Wells Enough School Form Left Easy Break Support Trouble High School Twenties Forgotten Our Family Credence

Author:Julia Leigh

“I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.”

School Born High School Moved Valleys Elementary School Antonio San Antonio

Author:Katie Leclerc

“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

Knows Years Made Stills Play School Night Lines Five Directors Performances Disaster Opening Embarrassed Juniors Junior Year Opening Night

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.”

Way Kind School Grows Growing Up Grew Months Grew Up High School Shooting Odd Maturity

Author:Logan Lerman

“When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!”

Way School Five Auditions

Author:Logan Lerman

“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.”

Knows Said Play School Parent Acting High School Things To Do Auditions Conferences Bumps School Plays Bumps In The Road

Author:Matt Letscher

“I never went to drama school.”

School Drama

Author:Matthew Lewis

“I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.”

School Wheels Los Angeles Volunteer Tutor

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“My awkward stage extended well into high school.”

Wells School Stage High School Awkward

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.”

Needs Helping Kids School Easy Parent Community Blame Library Agents Disorder Urban Deficit Planners School Library

Author:Richard Louv

“I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.”

Want Trying Years Home Kids School Three Speak Worry Four Connected British Britain Coming Home Get Back Accents

Author:Kevin McKidd

“Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.”

Real Use School Lasts Names Fatty

Author:Lea Michele

“Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.”

Years Enough Body School High School Seven Fishes Smell Your Body Restaurants Seven Years Sushi Japanese Food Fishy

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.”

Trying Character School Personality Autonomy

Author:Mia Maestro

“A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.”

“I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!”

Feels Years Home School Birth 80s Schooled Certificates Birth Certificate

Author:Rose McGowan

“I have always loved going to school.”

School

Author:Rudolph A. Marcus

“All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.”

Want School Laughing Pubs Time Off Have A Laugh School Friends

Author:Samantha Mumba

“For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.”

School Numbers Priorities Going To Work Scotty

Author:Scotty McCreery

“Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.”

Firsts School Jobs Starting Scary New Job First Day Of School

Author:Sean Maher

“I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.”

Trying Firsts Home School Remember Water Practice Television High School Cool Things Blown Away Happy Day Polo Water Polo

Author:Ted McGinley

“I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.”

Different Kids School Film Five Towns Video Life Experience Film School Avid

Author:Jodie Foster

“I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.”

Trying Made Wanted School Girl Stuff Sports Hair Academic Uniforms Strict Ink Volleyball Nun Dip Other Girl Elementary School Sandpaper

Author:Zosia Mamet

“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”

Wells School House Party Rocks College Band High School Touring Rock Bands Togas

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.”

School Black College High School Contact Boxing Belts Karate Black Belt

Author:Dean Norris

“The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.”

School Goes On Noble Enterprise Can Not Indispensable Dissemination Useful Knowledge

Author:Albert J. Nock

“When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.”

World Bigs School Girl Left Cutting Regret Fool Around The World Australia Bloody Life Regret

Author:Ben Nicholson

“My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.”

School Girl Childhood Comfortable Secure Nightmare Other Girl Giraffe

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.”

Ifs Looks Kids School Turns Decision Worry Doors Position Tvs Public School Turn Off Private School Preschool

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?”

Doe School Culture Rich Mom Dad Your Mom Your Dad

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.”

Children School Opportunity Educational Access Our Society Adulthood Public School Equalizer

Author:Janet Napolitano

“My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.”

School Parent Effort University Aspiration Wealthy Academic Supportive

Author:Paul Nurse

“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”

Said School Hours Study Teacher Training Constant Pursuit Enjoyed Fixed Guidance

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.”

Littles Bigs School Hell Influence Bob

Author:Buck Owens

“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.”

Thinking Art School Individual Painting Finished Painter Realising Layers Often Is Art School

Author:Chris Ofili

“I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.”

School America Born College High School Moved Finished Nigeria Indiana

Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.”

Years Firsts Hard School High School Shy Many Friends

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.”

School Acting High School Yeah

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.”

School Girl High School Shirts Pants School Girl

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.”

Wanted School Film Courses Community Class Study College Terrible University Going Away Auditions Community College

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.”

School Teacher Drama High School Theater

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.”

Wells School Focus Player Decided Theater Quitting League Scholarship Volleyball Ivy I Quit Ivy League Volleyball Player Ivy League Schools

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.”

Made Important School Literature Interesting Class Environment Teacher High School Enjoyed Interaction English Literature

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.”

People Years Home School Past Three Gone Generations Modern Ready Cooks Meals Relevant Modern Life Over The Past Home Life Three Generations Processed Food Takeaways

Author:Jamie Oliver

“It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.”

Needs Giving Should Kids School Courses Clear Limits Standards Speed Meals Bloody Double Standard Good Meals Speed Limits

Author:Jamie Oliver

“To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.”

Knows Years Has Beens Play Able School Law Stuff Talking Lawyer Faster Belts Law School Courtroom

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.”

Ifs Knows World Littles Persons Ends School Girl Party High School Opposites Adolescence

Author:Jerry O'Connell

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