Sayings About A School

#1. When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.

Nelsan Ellis

#2. It was a dream," he told himself firmly. "I dreamed a giant called Hagrid came to tell me I was going to a school for wizards. When I open my eyes I'll be at home in my cupboard.

J.K. Rowling

#3. I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

Flea

#4. Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.

David Berkowitz

#5. When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

Peter Bergman

#6. Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. Diplomas are ill-purposed. What should be celebrated is not the culmination of twelve years sitting in a school desk; what an 18-year-old should be recognized for is making it through young adulthood without getting herself killed.

Kari Martindale

#8. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

Oprah Winfrey

#9. Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

Umberto Eco

#10. I'm fairly certain lonely's most natural habitat is a school cafeteria.

Natalie Lloyd

#11. Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.

Sathya Sai Baba

#12. You can't stay in the library all day!" I hiss, sitting next to him.
"This is a school. Studying is encouraged."
"What exactly are you studying?"
He folds the paper and gives me his cat grin. "History students.

Kiersten White

#13. When we talk about GOD,
we're like a school of fish,
discussing the possible existence of the sea.

Rumi

#14. No matter how many times the elves explained the "illumination in a darkened world" analogy, she would never stop thinking it was weird to have a school named after glowing fungus.

Shannon Messenger

#15. I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#17. We're going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we've created a standard.

DeLoss Dodds

#18. I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

Bernard Beckett

#19. You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

Tracy Morgan

#20. The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. Some people, they feel like they have to change and try to go out and do this or do things for the cameras. I'm myself at all times, whether I'm at a grocery store or I'm speaking to a school. I want to be as levelheaded and down to earth as possible, because that's who I am.

Torrey Smith

#22. I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

Lupita Nyong'o

#23. [T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Karen Armstrong

#24. Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

Tamra Davis

#25. When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

Jet Li

#26. I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.

Kim Cattrall

#27. [T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior ... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

Clarence Thomas

#28. I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Chris Rock

#29. It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?'

Libba Bray

#30. In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

John Irving

#31. Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

Caroline Corr

#32. It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

John Eaton

#33. I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

Sigrid Undset

#34. I really loved this book. I did for a school book report last year and I really got into it I just couldnt take my eyes of! You really absolutley need to read this book!

Ann M. Martin

#35. I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

Toni Morrison

#36. Of course some of us had some geography in school and had studied maps, but a school map is a terribly uncommunicative thing.

Robertson Davies

#37. Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan," Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. "Learning is our soul's requirement, and

Stephen R. Lawhead

#38. Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Charles Handy

#39. I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

David Gallagher

#40. In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Thorstein Veblen

#41. Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

Elton John

#42. Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Dora Russell

#43. Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Leland Stanford

#44. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Shimon Peres

#45. The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Melvil Dewey

#46. We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

LL Cool J

#47. I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

Steve Jobs

#48. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

#49. I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it needs to pay to keep top talent. I'm just afraid to think where all of this will end up because the overall impact seems to be stretching far beyond the scoreboard.

LZ Granderson

#50. I'd known cruelty in a school - cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene - crowds batting around a person because they thought he was weak - happened to be my personal trigger.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#51. To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#52. Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.

Sebastian Junger

#53. When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

Marcel Dzama

#54. THE MONASTERY IS A SCHOOL - A SCHOOL IN WHICH WE learn from God how to be happy.

Thomas Merton

#55. He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Joe Hill

#56. anyone who has crammed for a school exam knows how easy it is to misquote in a showdown.

Jack Lait

#57. Buildings - faded brick buildings enclosed by a faded brick wall. A school, perhaps, or the estate of a dull family. The buildings had once been elegant, but many of the windows were shattered

Lemony Snicket

#58. Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

Freddie Stroma

#59. Turns out I'm only 'mom-special'. Special like a snowflake is special. Special like a school kid on honor roll.

Eliza Crewe

#60. It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

Gail Carriger

#61. There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.

Philip Schultz

#62. Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

Max Brooks

#63. Chief Shippy stands frozen, holding his breath, exhaling with relief as the young man dies, the gun smoke slowly moving across the room, like a school of fish.

Aleksandar Hemon

#64. Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Laurence J. Peter

#65. Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

Richard Sherman

#66. I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

Ezra Koenig

#67. When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

Simon Sinek

#68. Keely's pulse quickened. A stab of apprehension. He was the same at any live performance, suddenly anxious for the players. So stupid; these people were professional muscicians. But the way his throat narrowed they could have all been kds at a school recital. His kids.

Tim Winton

#69. Playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome - one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class - and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged

Walter Isaacson

#70. You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

Mario Andretti

#71. Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.

Dominic Raab

#72. The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Albert Einstein

#73. I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

James Green Somerville

#74. Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

Simon Bolivar

#75. It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Natalie Du Toit

#76. All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

Erin Cummings

#77. I'm old enough to remember when a social network was called a school playground.

Chris Geiger

#78. Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

#79. Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

Antoine Predock

#80. I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God' in it. I think that's an example of a judge allowing personal opinion to enter into the decision-making process, as opposed to strict interpretation of the Constitution.

George W. Bush

#81. An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#82. The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.

Daniel H. Pink

#83. In the forest of primeval
A school for Good and Evil
Twin towers like two heads
One for the pure
And one for the wicked
Try to escape you'll always fail,
The only way out is
Through a fairytale.

Soman Chainani

#84. He's my usual type of fan ... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

Doug Stanhope

#85. So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.

Liane Moriarty

#86. Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Abraham Maslow

#87. Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith ... We need believing people.

Adolf Hitler

#88. Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Henry Ward Beecher

#89. Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Robert Bresson

#90. I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

#91. One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

Andy Hargreaves

#92. Treat the past as a school.

Jim Rohn

#93. I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

Jet Li

#94. Thursday, the-night-of-the-date, comes and goes, leaving a school bus tire track across Desi's heart, fear abrading her mind until she can think of nothing except what the future will be like if something develops between her dad and Libby.

Sara Stark

#95. I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

David Foster Wallace

#96. 1. The choice of private schools is both fear-based and aspirational. Mercedes Parents are afraid their children won't get "the best education possible," which has nothing to do with actual education and everything to do with the number of other Mercedes Parents at a school. 2.

Maria Semple

#97. I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I'd be better. And I didn't really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back.

Daisy Ridley

#98. I don't know what would happen in a fight between a gang of angels and a school of great white sharks but I'm glad I won't be close enough to see it. Since the angels are squarely in the sharks' territory, my bet is with the sharks. Who

Susan Ee

#99. Trapped on a school bus for an hour each morning and each evening, she devoured book after book. She explored a hundred worlds, indifferent to her peers and the passing of the universe.

Danika Stone

#100. I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.

Yara Shahidi