Top 100 My School Quotes
#1. I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.
Bear Bryant
#2. From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#3. I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.
Chris Toumazou
#4. And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
James Weldon Johnson
#5. I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#6. I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
Iain Banks
#7. I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.
Jenna Bush
#8. During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.
Eric Schlosser
#9. I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
Missi Pyle
#10. I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
Janis Ian
#11. When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.
George Weah
#12. My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.
Frank Zappa
#13. When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#14. It was hard to leave my school. I've been going to the same school since kindergarden.
Miley Cyrus
#15. I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.
Azzedine Alaia
#16. Sport used to play a phenomenal part in my life, because I used to play a lot of county sport, a lot of sport for my school. I love team sports. Talk about being with the boys. I love the camaraderie. That's why I like acting.
Matthew William Goode
#17. And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
Aisha Tyler
#18. Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
Ornette Coleman
#19. My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot of friends. So coming home and actually improvising on the piano and just coming up with melodies was an escape for me.
Josh Groban
#20. I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
Lorde
#21. I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.
Halston Sage
#22. Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
Zhang Ziyi
#23. I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.
Denise Van Outen
#24. I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.
Kelsea Ballerini
#25. In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.
Graham Greene
#26. I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.
Winona Ryder
#27. I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
Paul Putner
#28. I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
Angela Kinsey
#29. After another hour in the dark and stuffy gym, I saw my dad appear in the doorway. He gave a little wave, like he showed up at my school every day to take me home after alien attacks.
Rick Yancey
#30. There's not even real *popularity* at my school."
"That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
John Green
#31. I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
Ronald Biggs
#32. I've never let my school interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
#33. During my school and college days, the three Khans - Aamir, Salman and Shah Rukh - were superstars for me and will always be. Their movies were eagerly awaited every Friday.
Shahid Kapoor
#34. My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.
Norm Crosby
#35. For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.
Ethan Embry
#36. In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith
#37. When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
Andrew Young
#38. Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'
Alice Eve
#39. In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen Hawking
#40. I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
Steve Nash
#41. I'm rockin' in my school shoes ... because it's all good!
Pete The Cat
#42. My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.
David Spade
#43. I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.
Theo James
#44. You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers ... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!
Jeff Foxworthy
#45. My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
Ada Yonath
#46. All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
Roald Dahl
#47. My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.
Haile Gebrselassie
#48. When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom
#49. Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
Naomi Campbell
#50. All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
George Whitman
#51. Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school.
Isaac Asimov
#52. 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.
Amish Tripathi
#53. My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
Paul Merton
#55. My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.
Richard Sherman
#56. I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.
Ronnie Wood
#57. I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
Sara Canning
#58. In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
Danny McBride
#59. I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.
Nolan Gould
#60. I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.
James Maslow
#61. My school colors were clear. We used to say, 'I'm not naked, I'm in the band.
Steven Wright
#62. At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that.
Lilla Crawford
#63. There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.
Michael Gambon
#64. I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.
Michiel Huisman
#65. In my school days, everyone thought I'm too tall for a Chinese girl.
Liu Wen
#66. I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.
Avril Lavigne
#67. I got expelled from my school when I was 12; I was quite bad!
Robert Pattinson
#68. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
Cara Delevingne
#69. When the polar ice advanced as far as Nottingham, my school was closed and I was evacuated to Mars.
Sophia McDougall
#70. What I'd had with most of my school friends hadn't been friendship at all. That had been the habit of the familiar, the reassurance of the unchanged.
Rebecca Starford
#71. I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
Yara Shahidi
#72. I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.
William J. Clinton
#73. I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.
Sol Michael
#74. I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
Mary Oliver
#75. On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.
Gordon Brown
#76. I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me - Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.
I go to a school for spies.
Ally Carter
#77. When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.
Alexa Von Tobel
#78. My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.
Eliza Doolittle
#79. I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics ... Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.
Isaac Asimov
#80. I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.
Nicole Scherzinger
#81. Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
Raf Simons
#82. My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!
Serena Williams
#83. All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
Michael Jackson
#84. I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.
Shelley Hennig
#85. The principle of my school is quite different. In the other schools, techniques are displayed like merchandise adorned with colors and flowers, so they can be turned into a way of making a living, which is not the true way.
Miyamoto Musashi
#86. I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
Jackie Evancho
#87. I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.
Beyonce Knowles
#88. My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.
Ryan Coogler
#89. I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
#90. I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.
Jeremy Irons
#91. At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.
Kelly Reilly
#92. My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
Ben Barnes
#93. During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn't happen.
Virat Kohli
#94. The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
Hanna Rosin
#95. I've been trying to be the best representative for my school, my family, and the USGA as I possibly could.
Peter Uihlein
#96. I was always in trouble for chatting. My school reports all used to say, 'Donna is a very bright girl, but she must stop talking in class.' In the end, I made a career out of it.
Donna Air
#97. A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#98. I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.
Tyler Oakley
#99. The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
Zhang Ziyi
#100. I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.
Thomas Middleditch
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