Top 100 Quotes About Going To School
#1. You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.
Emily Rios
#2. I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.
Daniel Humm
#3. I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.
Chelsea Clinton
#4. School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.
Djimon Hounsou
#5. When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.
Tina Fey
#6. I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice.
Amy Lane
#7. I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#8. I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school.
Robert Frost
#9. We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.
Jeanne Kohl-Welles
#10. We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; All the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we raise our voice.
Malala Yousafzai
#11. So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.
Matthew Lesko
#12. It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function
Gerard Way
#13. You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in long days rehearsing, filming and for us kids - going to school on the set.
Ken Osmond
#14. I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was just a hobby at that point, met Stanley Kubrick and was like, 'Whoa, this can be an art form, and you can really move people the way you do simply by acting.'
Vinessa Shaw
#15. Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#16. I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.
Edward P. Jones
#17. I hated going to school, mainly because my sister would drive me and she would put her make-up on while she drove. That's dangerous. That should be illegal.
Jackson Rathbone
#18. There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
Ray Bradbury
#19. My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
Sabrina Carpenter
#20. So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.
Tom Colicchio
#21. Elphaba gave him a sidelong glance. "I think you enjoy going to school, Nick. Are you sure canoodling with teenage girls isn't your ulterior motive?"
"Perish the thought, Elphaba, perish the thought. I'm too old for that." Nick winked. "By about eight hundred years.
Abramelin Keldor
#22. I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
Chris Brown
#23. I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.
Kim Harrison
#24. When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.
Andie MacDowell
#25. Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.
Trick Daddy
#26. Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs - the eternal student syndrome.
Stephen R. Covey
#27. I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.
Christa B. Allen
#28. Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
John James Audubon
#29. Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate.
Bertolt Brecht
#30. Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
Karen O
#31. Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself.
Lenore Look
#32. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future.
Malala Yousafzai
#33. I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
Twyla Tharp
#35. I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
Bel Powley
#36. If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates' and teachers' day is you being there filming, not the school.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#37. Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
Julian Bond
#38. Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.
Heidi Klum
#39. They said the doctors could tell from the scars."
"Stop."
"Scars can tell you how old the wound is."
"Stop."
"When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet."
"Sarah.
Amy Reed
#40. I am always sorry to hear that such and such a person is going to school to be educated. This is a great mistake. If the person is to get the benefit of what we call education, he must educate himself, under the direction of the teacher.
Fanny Jackson Coppin
#41. Dad: How do you like going to school? Son: The going part is fine, as is the coming home part, but I'm not a fan of the time in-between!
Various
#42. Considering you don't have any experience, I'll start you at ten dollars per hour until I can get you enrolled in classes, which I'll pay for. While you're going to school, I'll pay you twenty dollars an hour. And when you graduate, I'll raise you to forty dollars an hour.
Sky Corgan
#43. I'm afraid of everything. Myself. Mother. Lily. Friends who haunt me in the night. Even going to school, which is something I asked for. If I have attitude, it is hiding somewhere deep, someplace I'm afraid I may never find. Jenna
Mary E. Pearson
#44. When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'
Mark Wahlberg
#45. At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
Barnaby C. Keeney
#46. Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.
Michelle Rodriguez
#47. All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.
Marcia Gay Harden
#48. I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.
Lily Cole
#49. I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.
Chiaki Kuriyama
#50. I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair.
Stacey Farber
#51. This past year, sometimes I would get up in the mornings and actually look forward to going to school because I knew I would see you. I would wonder what you were going to wear. I loved lunch because I could sit in the cafeteria and look out the window and see you up there in the bleachers.
Sarah Addison Allen
#52. Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
Malala Yousafzai
#53. Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.
James A. Moore
#54. 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.
Logan Lerman
#55. Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
Oscar Wilde
#56. I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.
Yngwie Malmsteen
#57. I recommend everyone who DJ's to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ's in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.
Armin Van Buuren
#58. The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
#59. I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
Guy Davenport
#60. The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it's definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. I'm going to school today, end of story.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#61. Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
Sharon Stone
#62. Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it
E.L. Konigsburg
#63. The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.
Robert Kiyosaki
#64. This was the stuff nightmares were made of. Going to school in your Spiderman pj's. Giving a public speech naked. And discovering you'd accidentally slept with your boss.
Jill Shalvis
#66. I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.
Michiel Huisman
#67. I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I never had the opportunity to associate with anybody my own age due to my
career. I miss being around kids my own age.
Selena
#68. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
Jessye Norman
#69. I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. That's not being a warmonger. It's being a realist.
Allen West
#70. I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
Alan Dershowitz
#71. Cool it," cried Olga. "Working hard is what I do! Can't be perfect. Going to school not cheap and what are you doing here, a beauty nobody want. My first year was ok, only five or ten times knocked down, then later more and more. He says I'm no lady and gotta work harder for his dollar.
J.M.K. Walkow
#72. I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.
Lupita Nyong'o
#73. When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.
Martin Bouygues
#74. Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.
Kristy Swanson
#75. Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.
Ted Cruz
#76. When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.
Neneh Cherry
#77. I think I need to give you a hockeymacation."
"Hockeymacation?"
"Yes, I am going to school you in the art of hockey"
"What! Seriously?"
"Yes, you need to be educated.
Toni Aleo
#78. I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.
Tim Field
#79. I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own
Hines Ward
#80. Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Shakuntala Devi
#81. Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.
Henry Handel Richardson
#82. You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.
Nikki Jean
#83. You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.
Tom Stoppard
#84. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education
Malala Yousafzai
#85. By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.
Rutger Hauer
#86. I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.
Charles Frazier
#87. When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
Larry Bird
#88. I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They think of it as a special privilege. Going to school, being with other children, getting books and pencils - all of that is like a dream for them.
Cheryl Benard
#89. Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.
Bruce Vento
#90. This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?
Hal Holbrook
#91. During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
Chris Ware
#92. Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.
Anne Hathaway
#93. I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.
Robin Trower
#94. If you're going to school, you should do what you enjoy.
April Bowlby
#95. Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal ... I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival.
Rose McGowan
#96. Richard Dawkins lamented,9 we think that our kids need to have "fun, fun, fun" rather than, say, experience wonder or interest (they are not the same thing) when going to school or a museum.
Massimo Pigliucci
#97. Going to school is like going to prison ... you have about two weeks to establish your credibility, failing which you're either a punk or as good as dead. Depending on the school, some students can manage ot avoid those stark alternatives, but even at the best school, no teacher does.
Garret Keizer
#98. Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.
Kevin Powers
#99. When I got tired of going to school, I was kind of overqualified for a lot of jobs. Kind of underqualified for a lot of others.
Robert Weinberg
#100. I was being ridiculed for going to school ... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene ... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.
Donald Byrd
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