Top 100 Sayings About In School
#1. As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#2. When I was younger, I loved math. Everything about math. But in school, math now has letters. Like what does x equal? There are also long stories with characters, and although the story is supposed to end with some number, all the words block my path to getting there.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#3. I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.
Josh Hutcherson
#4. It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was.
Bill Cosby
#5. I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself - or other people - in a different way.
Natalie Portman
#6. Writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
Andrea A. Lunsford
#7. This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it - your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all.
James Howe
#8. Her rage filled the house, flat stale smoke. It got into everything, into our hair and our food, like the fallout they talked to us about in school that would one day drift down soft as snow.
Junot Diaz
#9. memorizing history in school, you should picture yourself in the Battle of Hastings and pretend to lose your legs. You won't forget it then. Parietal
Ruby Wax
#10. I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
Rahul Dravid
#11. Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tim Kimmel
#12. After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#13. Let me guess: you were one of those kids who had a chair dedicated to you in detention in school."
"Was not. They retired my chair after it sort of accidentally caught on fire. There's a plaque there now.
Toni McGee Causey
#14. The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford ... Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.
Benjamin Hoff
#15. I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.
Erik Hassle
#16. For those of us who are no longer in school, we observed, it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.
Mortimer J. Adler
#17. I was not the hot, popular girl in school.
Alexis Knapp
#18. What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
Philippe Petit
#19. I always liked acting in school and drama classes, but when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them I wanted to be a singer. I didn't want to be a jack of all trades. I wanted to master one.
Eliza Doolittle
#20. I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.
Lil' Wayne
#21. Keep healthy. The longer you live, the smaller the fraction of your life was spent in school.
C.C. Phillips
#22. We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.
Andy Williams
#23. I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
Scotty McCreery
#24. I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
Laura Bush
#25. The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money ... but never learn to have money work for them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#26. I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
Dustin Hoffman
#27. When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
M.J. Rose
#28. I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.
Bruce Pavitt
#29. If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.
John Whitehead
#30. What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
William Glasser
#31. I learned in school that money isn't everything. It's happiness that counts. So momma sent me to a different school.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#32. I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
Saul Kripke
#33. There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.
Rita Ora
#34. We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#35. My whole background was with bands, so I always thought of "fashion" as performative. It took me a long time to bridge the gap between my music and what I was studying in school, [which was] dance and being a performer.
Le1f
#36. While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and still pass as something hybrid-y enough for my poetry workshops, I was looking for models, for forebears.
John D'Agata
#37. One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.
Maureen F. McHugh
#38. Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick.
Dennis Lehane
#39. In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.
David Barton
#40. I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.
Gillian Jacobs
#41. What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.
John D'Agata
#42. Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
James Patterson
#43. Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.
Cillian Murphy
#45. You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.
Hannah Harrington
#46. I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
Shawn Mendes
#47. I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
John Thaw
#48. You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
Emo Philips
#49. You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.
Alex Turner
#50. Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
Quentin Tarantino
#51. I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.
Nina Dobrev
#52. And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
Travis Barker
#53. Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.
Henry Winkler
#55. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
Ogden Nash
#56. But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.
Suzanne Collins
#58. Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
Ruth Ann Minner
#59. I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
Malin Akerman
#60. Some want prayer in school, some want condoms.
Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.
Marshall Fritz
#61. The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
Andreas Schleicher
#62. I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
George Foreman
#63. While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.
Scott Weiss
#64. Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time - even in school. She says it makes her learn her lessons better. She wants Ermengarde to be one, too, but Ermengarde says she is too fat.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#65. Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.
Logan Lerman
#66. When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have got to do is invest in education and in jobs, something which I have fought for, rather than more jails and incarceration.
Bernie Sanders
#67. Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bull shit they teach you in school.
George Carlin
#69. Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general
Maureen Johnson Name Of The Star
#70. I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
Beth Henley
#71. I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.
Madonna Ciccone
#72. The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his or her class.
Catherine Asaro
#73. I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.
Stephanie Szostak
#74. I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
Justin Townes Earle
#75. I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.
Patti Smith
#77. I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.
Matt Dillon
#78. Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.
Will Shields
#79. I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
Jayma Mays
#80. My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.
Rita Rudner
#81. I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.
Colin Meloy
#82. And you know what? Maybe Michael didn't write those notes. And maybe he doesn't
think I'm the Josiest girl in school.But he thought I looked nice in my pink dress. And that's all that matters to me.
Meg Cabot
#83. In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
Clint Eastwood
#84. This chasm makes itself known to us in all kinds of ways. A little girl wanders home, at age seven, after being teased in school and asks her parents, "Are we niggers and what does this mean?
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#85. If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.
David McCullough
#86. Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.
Judy Biggert
#87. I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
Garrett Hedlund
#88. I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.
Paul Rhys
#89. Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.
J. Ruth Gendler
#90. I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
Beverly Cleary
#91. When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.
Alice Smith
#92. Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.
Kirsten Dunst
#93. There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.
Dee Dee Myers
#94. The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
#95. I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.
John Dufresne
#96. As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
John Gokongwei
#97. Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
Madeline Carroll
#98. I'm taking a pretty light load. I'm doing well. Gideon and Jason are both in school too, so we find time between shows to get work done, and during the day. I really like Columbia. Unlike high school, I don't feel any pressure to get straight-As. I just like learning.
Sarah Steele
#99. 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
#100. I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.
Quentin Tarantino
