Top 100 Our School Quotes

#1. Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.

David Levithan

Our School Quotes #13123
#2. We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

Diane Watson

Our School Quotes #36059
#3. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

William Golding

Our School Quotes #68465
#4. Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

Tom DeLay

Our School Quotes #85751
#5. Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

Andrew Young

Our School Quotes #115706
#6. If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

Otis Moss III

Our School Quotes #178037
#7. We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability,

Mike Huckabee

Our School Quotes #208336
#8. Everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

David Levithan

Our School Quotes #240742
#9. Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

Neal Shusterman

Our School Quotes #270516
#10. The Bible equips us for ministry. And ministry is not limited to pastors, priests, nuns, speakers, authors, and Bible teachers. Ministry is doing God's work wherever He has placed us ... in our home, in our school, in our workplace, in our neighborhood, in our community, and in our world.

Wendy Blight

Our School Quotes #302077
#11. Books will soon be obsolete in the schools ... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

Thomas A. Edison

Our School Quotes #307072
#12. We have lunch at ten-forty-five, Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

Rebecca Stead

Our School Quotes #324103
#13. The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

Owen Wilson

Our School Quotes #347774
#14. In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

Emo Philips

Our School Quotes #353874
#15. We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It's our school, our playground, our artist's studio. I beleive that we're here to master the process of creation - to learn how to consciously channel the creative energy of spirit into physical form.

Shakti Gawain

Our School Quotes #355660
#16. I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.

Jenna Coleman

Our School Quotes #366901
#17. May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our abode there. Let us study its movements and attempt to conform ours to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there.

Claude De La Colombiere

Our School Quotes #368275
#18. We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

William O. Douglas

Our School Quotes #368292
#19. THEY NEVER TAUGHT MARCUS GARVEY IN OUR SCHOOL CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS THEIR GOLDEN RULE

Jay-Z

Our School Quotes #368719
#20. None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven students and was taught by a rarity for our school, an exchange teacher from England, Mr. Leslie Sturges.

Martin Chalfie

Our School Quotes #376804
#21. My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

Natalie Babbitt

Our School Quotes #424135
#22. School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.

Shaheen Mistri

Our School Quotes #445254
#23. Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

Alexandra Robbins

Our School Quotes #449598
#24. The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

Paul Brunton

Our School Quotes #457532
#25. You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.

Sherman Alexie

Our School Quotes #459082
#26. When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

Bil Keane

Our School Quotes #462353
#27. When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Our School Quotes #508487
#28. By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

Jon Porter

Our School Quotes #527379
#29. Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

Charles M. Schulz

Our School Quotes #562971
#30. Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Dora Russell

Our School Quotes #572545
#31. Hogwarts is threatened!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

J.K. Rowling

Our School Quotes #590739
#32. My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

Joe Mande

Our School Quotes #696660
#33. We'll get her outta our school, one way or another." And her little dog, too.

Kami Garcia

Our School Quotes #697629
#34. Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

Patrick Geddes

Our School Quotes #711938
#35. Great. Darcy is the ruler of our school. Prety soon, Julius is going to be like Singapore - you'll get a $500 fine for chewing gum or making out in the hallways.

Flynn Meaney

Our School Quotes #714270
#36. In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

Alessia Cara

Our School Quotes #758243
#37. Every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.

Jandy Nelson

Our School Quotes #801508
#38. What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?

Kelly Gallagher

Our School Quotes #945921
#39. When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

Michael Bennet

Our School Quotes #961378
#40. the assistant principal told me how he "loved to read a great novel and discuss the meaning of life." He smiled, sighed wistfully, and then turned suddenly serious. "But we can't do that at our school. We have to focus on basic skills and classroom management.

John Owens

Our School Quotes #962887
#41. When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Our School Quotes #1136444
#42. Afew classrooms in our school have bathrooms right in them, but I can't even use those, because every little sound you make is broadcast to the whole room

Anonymous

Our School Quotes #1148786
#43. It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened.

Elizabeth Kostova

Our School Quotes #1187962
#44. The stage was our school, our home, our life.

Lillian Gish

Our School Quotes #1193880
#45. We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Montesquieu

Our School Quotes #1204771
#46. Referring to Bogey's party: A lame excuse for all the idiots in our school to drink beer and rub up against each other in hopes of distracting themselves from the pathetic emptiness of their meaningless, consumer-driven lives.

David Levithan

Our School Quotes #1206331
#47. One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.

Em Bailey

Our School Quotes #1239324
#48. The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

Randeep Hooda

Our School Quotes #1255601
#49. If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

Wayne LaPierre

Our School Quotes #1263686
#50. Listen up, Little Miss Fun Hater. Off the record, if it wasn't for our school's strict but smarmy anti-bullying laws, I would bitch-slap you into next summer.

G.G. Silverman

Our School Quotes #1348939
#51. So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school.
Buddy, I was miserable."
-Bryce Loski

Wendelin Van Draanen

Our School Quotes #1388022
#52. From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our School Quotes #1451015
#53. We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

Joan Lunden

Our School Quotes #1529471
#54. The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back.

David Walliams

Our School Quotes #1565026
#55. The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.

Quinn Shephard

Our School Quotes #1586545
#56. If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine.

Robin Benway

Our School Quotes #1592088
#57. I really don't think our school system is an evil borg force. It's sort of like the government. It's not even efficient enough to be a borg of total evil, even if it wanted to be.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Our School Quotes #1612189
#58. One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our School Quotes #1625444
#59. We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean ... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Michelle Obama

Our School Quotes #1659163
#60. Our religion, our party, our tribe, our town, our school, our race, our nation. Believe. Belong. Behave. Or Be damned.

Tom Robbins

Our School Quotes #1698331
#61. Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Our School Quotes #1718680
#62. I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.

Mary Sue Terry

Our School Quotes #1730427
#63. When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

Jill Lepore

Our School Quotes #1731944
#64. When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

James Woods

Our School Quotes #1807451
#65. Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

Wendy Davis

Our School Quotes #1822285
#66. When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

Eunhyuk

Our School Quotes #1843992
#67. Now there's a black market for toys at our school. Christopher Stangel brought in a bunch of Legos from home yesterday, and I hear a single brick will set you back fifty cents.

Jeff Kinney

Our School Quotes #1876243
#68. Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well ... it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.

Anupam Kher

Our School Quotes #1877086
#69. Look, we ought to do this for our kids ... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

Robert D. Putnam

Our School Quotes #9017
#70. I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

Jerry Falwell

Our School Quotes #11468
#71. America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

Colin Powell

Our School Quotes #27628
#72. We are in the school [or mortality] and keep learning and we do not expect to cease learning while we live on earth; and when we pass through the veil, we expect still to continue to learn and increase our fund of information.

David A. Bednar

Our School Quotes #28920
#73. Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

Jacques Barzun

Our School Quotes #55141
#74. 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.

Miles Davis

Our School Quotes #66058
#75. For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.

Jennifer Lee

Our School Quotes #84541
#76. New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our School Quotes #91548
#77. What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.

Samuel Richardson

Our School Quotes #119451
#78. When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.

Fred Rogers

Our School Quotes #128895
#79. When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

Bill Cosby

Our School Quotes #150580
#80. What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

Virginia Mae Axline

Our School Quotes #161622
#81. I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.

David Crosby

Our School Quotes #164219
#82. We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things out together with the pupils

Jostein Gaarder

Our School Quotes #195425
#83. Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

Utah Phillips

Our School Quotes #200190
#84. I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

John Paul DeJoria

Our School Quotes #201474
#85. Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

Alfie Kohn

Our School Quotes #208735
#86. It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.

David Thewlis

Our School Quotes #232920
#87. I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Steven Chu

Our School Quotes #235478
#88. The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

Alfie Kohn

Our School Quotes #235704
#89. Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

Holly Sklar

Our School Quotes #239662
#90. We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

Irwin Rose

Our School Quotes #244641
#91. Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

Daniel Quinn

Our School Quotes #249747
#92. Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

Abraham Lincoln

Our School Quotes #251667
#93. But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

Daniel Greenberg

Our School Quotes #263917
#94. What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.

Trip Lee

Our School Quotes #287200
#95. The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

Chris Gabrieli

Our School Quotes #297521
#96. Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents.

Zoe Weil

Our School Quotes #318791
#97. When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Dave Foley

Our School Quotes #320273
#98. When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.

John Woo

Our School Quotes #330061
#99. Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.

Colman McCarthy

Our School Quotes #332801
#100. Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Our School Quotes #340077

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