School Ties Quotes

#1. The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

Kate Reardon

#2. My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

John Dewey

#4. When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

Anne-Marie Duff

#5. I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

Evo Morales

#6. Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Jerry Spinelli

#7. I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde

#8. Because I wanted to see if I could make him shine.

Jessica Gadziala

#9. Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

Morgan Freeman

#10. I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments.

Ajay Mehta

#11. One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Julia Gillard

#12. I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.

Francesca Zappia

#13. Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Tony Benn

#14. I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

Kevin Costner

#15. She loved that man madly, but in a delirious way of some kind; there was never any mooching and mincing around, just talk and a very deep companionship that none of us would ever be able to fathom.

Jack Kerouac

#16. I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. Iscussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher ...

George Bernard Shaw