“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
“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.” YearsTwoHardHappensSchoolMotherNextFatherBrotherLessonsMetsMarriedHigh SchoolDiedGirlfriendMy BrotherTwo YearsLife LessonPregnantNext YearMy GirlfriendSophomoreMother DiedHard LessonsSophomore Year Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is
“In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.” SchoolNextSawsTeamFootballBasketballHigh SchoolCoachesNext DayFootball TeamBasketball Team Author:Charles Mingus
“I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.” PeopleFirstsSchoolPurposeNextConditionsFoundationDemocraticMissionsHospitalsRepublicContinentsImprovingCongoAfrican ContinentDemocratic RepublicLiving Conditions Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.” SchoolLife IsNextFinishedReleaseThis LifeGradesHeavenlyPromotionSchooling Author:David Berg
“I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.” AgeTodaySchoolGirlNextStuffTearsLike YouOne DaySevenMessPrimariesObsessedJailTwelveEmbarrassedPrimary SchoolReally PopularPopular Girl Author:Charlize Theron
“I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.” KnowsHumansSchoolNextFeltHuman BeingsHeardHigh SchoolInstrumentsFlatsChicagoNext DayHornsJuniorsJunior HighBeing PlayedHigh School JuniorTromboneBaritonesLouisvilleTubasFrench Horn Author:Quincy Jones
“In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.” ShouldFirstsBelieveSchoolNextPlansBalanceSolutionsGenderDecadesEngineering Author:Patrick Awuah, Jr.
“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.” MindChildrenSchoolMotherPurposeNextPartyIdealsSoldierOpeningBordersNext DayClosingSystematicCastroPurpose Of Education Author:Gloria Estefan
“Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.” SchoolNextLeaderGenerationsAtheismPositive AtheismEducatedNext GenerationPublic SchoolCultural Exchange Author:Eugenie Scott
“Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.” PeopleHomeSchoolNextCitiesPositionWeaponsAreasCommandPostsHospitalsFiringMosquesStorageHamas Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.” SchoolUsedNightNextHouseHoursFrontsStandingMirrorsTablesWork OutLengthNext Day Author:Clemence Poesy
“You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't for the high school quarterback. The Bill of Rights is for the least among us. The Bill of Rights is for minorities. The Bill of Rights is for those who have minority opinions.” KnowsSchoolNextOpinionRightsGroupsHigh SchoolBillsQueensMinoritiesQuarterbackNsaBill Of RightsPromProm Queen Author:Rand Paul