School Gates Quotes

#1. It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.

Denise Mina

#2. When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.

Ken Livingstone

#3. Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

Bill Gates

#4. You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. Even as a child Gates had an obsessive personality and a compulsive need to be the best. "Any school assignment, be it playing a musical instrument or writing papers, whatever, he would do at any or all hours of the day".

James Wallace

#6. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Bill Gates

#7. I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Bill Gates

#8. My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Melinda Gates

#9. Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

Andy Hargreaves

#10. What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Bill Gates

#11. Actually, before 'Super 8,' I didn't even have a game console. But now I do. For a kickoff for 'Super 8,' they gave us all brand new PlayStation 3s.

Joel Courtney

#12. Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

Melinda Gates

#13. Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

Antonio Gates

#14. I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

Sam Shepard

#15. Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?

Greg Giraldo

#16. In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

Antonio Gates

#17. If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

Bill Gates

#18. You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Bill Gates

#19. According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#20. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

Bill Gates

#21. High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

Antonio Gates

#22. Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

Bill Gates

#23. My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

Bill Gates

#24. But penetration was a big deal. They protected their anuses the way girls protected their hymen in high school, believing that allowing anything beyond their holy gates would permanently corrupt them.

Maggie Young

#25. The kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

Richelle Mead

#26. only white, his hair braided. He eschewed

Alice Hoffman

#27. In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

Henry Louis Gates

#28. Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

Henry Louis Gates

#29. Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

Melinda Gates

#30. I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

Melinda Gates

#31. My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

Bill Gates

#32. Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

Bill Gates

#33. By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Bill Gates

#34. If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

Bill Gates

#35. There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Donald Harington

#36. I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#37. Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

Bill Gates