“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.” IfsKnowsWorldLittlesPersonsEndsSchoolGirlPartyHigh SchoolOppositesAdolescence Author:Jerry O'Connell
“While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.” TwoEndsSchoolJobsEducationCuttingSonBusyDawnTwo Jobs Author:Slick Rick
“It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.” PeopleMeanEndsSchoolOrderCommonInfluenceGainsJew Author:Adam Weishaupt
“It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.” PeopleDoeEndsSchoolUsedNextLordCasesWeird ThingsEton Author:Eddie Redmayne
“In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.” WayEndsSchoolValuesWealthEconomyFansBiggerAddEfficientZuckerbergSnobby Author:Amity Shlaes
“I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.” ThinkingEndsSchoolChanceTeacherBloodMomHusbandUltimateSecond ChanceSleevesGeorgiaSchool TeachersGifts Of Life Author:Niki Taylor
“If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.” IfsThinkingEndsSchoolPoliticalBornPracticePoliticianPracticalsThe End Of The DayPolitical Science Author:George Weah
“I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.” KnowsEndsSchoolStruggleDramaCash Author:Dawn French
“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.” LooksIdeasEndsSchoolRememberCultureParentAttentionGrewGrew UpTablesPhonesDinnerCellsTeenagerLook UpDistractionSwingsCell PhoneToddlerDinner TableBlackberriesPickupsSchool Days Author:Sherry Turkle
“I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."” YearsKindSaidEndsSchoolRememberNamesFeltStupidTestsCrisisStuckCleverExistentialThey SaidBizarreExistential Crisis Author:Kit Harington
“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.” KnowsYearsHumansEndsSchoolWinningAbilityEducationStudyFiguresStudentsPrizeCopies Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.” YearsChildrenStillsEndsSchoolWhiteWrittenPagesResearchPaintFrustrationFortyBangsSlapManiaMaladyForty Years Old Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.” IfsMindHas BeensEndsSchoolPurposeForceStudentsEvolutionStrategyAccomplish Author:Kenneth R. Miller
“Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.” EndsSchoolUsedHoursHigh SchoolFocusedSavedObsessedMicroscopesAlgaeMicroorganismsMicrobiology Author:Randy Schekman
“Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.” EndsGovernmentSchoolPoliticalIndividualChurchDirectOrganizationFunctionInstitutionsZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.” MindBelieveEndsStatesSchoolLostViewsConceptsHatredSightNotionRevolutionaryPettyAnarchismAnarchistServitudeUnleashing Author:Peter Kropotkin
“David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.” WantShouldEndsMatterSchoolBornJusticeViewsDoctorsUniversityPrivilegeTiesInterviewsBritainWhat MattersQualificationsOld SchoolOxfordTurned DownLauraScandalousOxford University Author:Gordon Brown
“I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.” WayEndsSchoolOrderWeekMonthsDecidedPaidNewspapersSensibleArranging Author:Terry Pratchett
“The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.” FirstsLittlesEndsSchoolChurchAtheismYouthComfortSafetyQuestsTypicalSafety First Author:Edgar Lee Masters
“God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.” MindHumansEndsSometimesHandsSchoolLawWomenVoiceMastersProudSucceedEqualHarmonyCrowdsAppreciationMannersGentleReedsSomberCedars Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.” WritingHas BeensEndsStatesCharacterSchoolCultureReadingNationsUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyHigh SchoolDespiteImpulseAcquireMore TimeInsightfulShoppingCompellingConsumerismMallsUncontrollableAmerican Character Book:Loud and Clear Source: Loud and Clear
“Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas.” FeelsTryingDifferentEndsSchoolFilmGoalLevelsEmotionPersonalityPreparedMotherhoodHonestlyReachingThe End Of The DayAgendasFilm SchoolAnd At The End Of The DayPersonal Goal Author:Christine Swanson
“If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.” IfsMindSaidEndsSchoolTeacherHatedBeing A Teacher Author:Tim Gunn
“I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.” EndsSchoolReaderIndiaMedicineEngineeringMbaSchool Days Author:Amish Tripathi
“And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.” YearsChildrenEndsHardSchoolPracticeStudentsCollegeHard WorkCostHigh SchoolDollarsPassingPassingsGradesGraduatesFourthDiligentIndianaFourth GradeGraduating High SchoolHead Start Author:Mitch McConnell