School Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024
‘The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.’ – Abraham Lincoln
‘In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.’ – Mark Twain
‘In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.’ – Tom Bodett
‘True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.’ – Kurt Vonnegut
‘My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn’t until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.’ – Amanda Seales
‘Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.’ – Albert Einstein
‘Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.’ – Muhammad Ali
‘Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.’ – Benjamin Franklin
‘I did go to college with him, but everyone’s always like, ‘Did you meet Mark Zuckerberg? Did you hang out with him?’ and I’m like, ‘No,’ because he was in a lab creating Facebook, and I was, like, learning about alcohol. Well, we did go to school, and I think I’m not really benefiting from that relationship in any way.’ – Colin Jost
‘I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.’ – Charlie Puth
‘I am big into astrology. My best friend in the whole wide world, Justin, got me hooked on astrology, when I was in high school. I am a Capricorn, but Im a Gemini rising and a Pisces moon.’ – Renee Rapp
‘In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.’ – LeBron James
‘A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.’ – George Santayana
‘My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.’ – Taylor Swift
‘I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.’ – Jennifer Connelly
‘To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.’ – John Strachan
‘I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs… it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.’ – Till Lindemann
‘Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.’ – Delmore Schwartz
‘A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
‘Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.’ – James E. Faust
‘My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.’ – Jennifer Ehle
‘When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’ – Quentin Tarantino’ – Quentin Tarantino
‘I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.’ – Eiza Gonzalez
‘Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.’ – Edmund Burke
‘We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.’ – Thucydides
‘My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.’ – Maya Angelou
‘You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.’ – Michelle Obama
‘We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.’ – Darell Hammond
‘If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can’t afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.’ – Paul LePage
‘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
‘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
‘What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.’ – Chuck Grassley
‘Voting is how we participate in a civic society – be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It’s the way we teach our children – in school elections – how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.’ – Loretta Lynch
‘We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.’ – Katharine Hepburn
‘He who opens a school door, closes a prison.’ – Victor Hugo
‘I was born in Germany and grew up immersed in international school communities. I was in the German bilingual track, spent a few years in rural Canada, and then went to the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy.’ – Sophie Hawley-Weld
‘I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.’ – Ezra Miller
‘My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.’ – Denzel Washington
‘My mom was my rock, my confidant and my best friend. She was an elementary school teacher who worked with students with disabilities and she lived every day giving back to her family and her community.’ – Matt Barnes
‘We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.’ – Carol Burnett
‘What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.’ – J. J. Watt
‘I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.’ – Yogi Berra
‘The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school’s steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my teacher, who couldn’t have been more different from them. She was one of the most loving people I had ever known.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.’ – Dennis Rodman
‘I was a smart kid, but I hated school.’ – Eminem
‘A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois
‘At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.’ – DJ Khaled
‘I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.’ – Candace Owens
‘In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald’s to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.’ – Kathleen Hanna
‘America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.’ – Jane Addams
‘College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.’ – J. Cole
‘Education begins at home. You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him.’ – Geoffrey Holder
‘I always got good grades; I just didn’t go to school much. I didn’t like it.’ – Lil Peep
‘School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody’s perfect, so why practice?’ – Billie Joe Armstrong
‘As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don’t know, I just got quieter… With my friends, I was still an extrovert.’ – John Mulaney
‘Randomly enough, my older sisters went to a makeup school when they were younger, so they’re all really good at it. They’ve always told me that ‘natural is better.” – Kendall Jenner
‘I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they’re dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There’s no time left to be creative.’ – Tom Petty
‘When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.’ – Morgan Freeman
‘People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.’ – Richard M. Nixon
‘I went to Catholic school in and out. I’m what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.’ – Jon Bon Jovi
‘Maybe I’m young, but I still have an old school feel to me.’ – Tommaso Ciampa
‘I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.’ – Beyonce Knowles
‘This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.’ – Thomas Dekker
‘As a recording engineer – someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day – you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school.’ – Steve Albini
‘My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.’ – Jimmy Butler
‘I went to Paramount High School, Mayfair High School, all types of high schools. I’m not a high school graduate, but it’s all good.’ – YG
‘My freshman year of high school, I was an excellent student, first and foremost.’ – Rubi Rose
‘I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.’ – Ishmael Beah
‘I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one. Nobody knows me – I’m incognito. It’s all new, all fun.’ – MF Doom
‘You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.’ – Josephine Baker
‘I got a lot of very bad hate on social media from some people from my school. I think people thought I changed because they saw me on TV. They weren’t close enough to know that I was still the same human being… When I walked at graduation, I got booed. It was kind of stupid.’ – Melanie Martinez
‘It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.’ – Jarrett J. Krosoczka
‘Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.’ – Heinrich Heine
‘It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.’ – Marley Dias
‘You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him ‘Doctor.” – Abe Lemons
‘My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.’ – Dorothea Dix
‘Grades don’t measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school.’ – Thomas J. Stanley
‘Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.’ – Ulysses S. Grant
‘The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.’ – P. J. O’Rourke
‘School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can’t concentrate on it. People always say, ‘You should have tried harder.’ But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
‘For some reason, we’re brainwashed to think if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person.’ – Charles Barkley
‘I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word, used to lead him and say, ‘Johnny, sounds like… ? Johnny, sounds like… ?’ I said out loud, ‘Sounds like Johnny can’t read.’ Teacher told me to leave the room.’ – Shannon Sharpe
‘I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.’ – Juice Wrld
‘Work-based learning is a game changer. It’s like test driving a career, and I have seen it in action with our registered apprenticeship programs for high school students.’ – Kim Reynolds
‘Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.’ – Elizabeth Blackwell
‘In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don’t go to school and many of them are in Africa.’ – George Weah
‘I’ve got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.’ – Ronnie Wood
‘That’s what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It’s about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we’ll still have coverage.’ – Barack Obama
‘I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.’ – SZA
‘The home is the chief school of human virtues.’ – William Ellery Channing
‘When I used to live in Chicago – went to school there for four years and lived there for two years after – the whole time, I worked at this restaurant called DMK, and people would come in, and I would wait on their tables, and they would say, ‘Oh my gosh, man. You look like the dude from ‘Parks and Rec.’ You look like Jean-Ralphio.” – Joe Keery
‘I trained to be a priest – started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.’ – Johnny Vegas
‘I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn’t even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe… I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.’ – Ben Affleck
‘I’m an OG. I was an OG when I was 16. I was an OG when I made the decision I don’t want to go to school anymore and start skipping to make music.’ – Playboi Carti
‘My great grandfather from my father’s side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental in setting up the Osmania university. His wife set up the Hydari club for women so that they could play tennis, and she also set up the first girls’ school in Hyderabad.’ – Aditi Rao Hydari
‘I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.’ – Peter De Vries
‘I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.’ – Peter Crouch
‘The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.’ – Ron White
‘Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it’s like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It’s not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.’ – Dennis Moore
‘Life is a school of probability.’ – Walter Bagehot
‘As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.’ – Kevin Mitnick
‘I left school and couldn’t find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I’ve always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.’ – Robin Williams
‘Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.’ – Edward Gibbon
‘I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.’ – Lady Gaga
‘When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.’ – Nick Saban
‘There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.’ – Kamala Harris
‘This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.’ – Anne Frank
‘I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.’ – Ryan Gosling
‘When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn’t know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I’d end up going to comedy.’ – Zendaya
‘George Carlin’s album, ‘Class Clown,’ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.’ – Steven Wright
‘Getting to play with your friends and trash talk. That’s some of the best parts of gaming for me. It’s like having recess in elementary school.’ – Kofi Kingston
‘I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘There is only one school of literature – that of talent.’ – Vladimir Nabokov
‘All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.’ – Ken Robinson
‘My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
‘When school children start paying union dues, that ‘s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.’ – Albert Shanker
‘You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter’s school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.’ – Laura Lang
‘I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I’m still a dork.’ – Zoe Kravitz
‘I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I’ve taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.’ – Michael Eisner
‘Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.’ – James Forman, Jr.
‘At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.’ – Michael Caine
‘In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan
‘I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.’ – Emma Watson
‘My mother grew up during the sunset of British colonialism and attended English schools, where she was not allowed to be called Tin Swe Thant, but was instead required to have a Western ‘school name.” – Alex Wagner
‘I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.’ – Richard Branson
‘A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.’ – Raja Krishnamoorthi
‘Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, ‘You look like Marky Mark!’ Then as I got older, they were like, ‘You look like Donnie Wahlberg.’ Now they’re like, ‘You look like Donnie Wahlberg’s cousin from Massachusetts.” – Ike Barinholtz
‘I went to a Christian high school, so I went under my middle name. I don’t think they would have accepted me in the school – ‘This is Rebel’… so I have two middle names, Melanie Elizabeth, and I went under those. But Rebel’s way cooler.’ – Rebel Wilson
‘Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.’ – Madisen Beaty
‘My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past twenty-five years.’ – Paul Merton
‘I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.’ – Ariana Grande
‘His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.’ – Emma Willard
‘My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.’ – Steve Jobs
‘I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.’ – Kanye West
‘For me, it’s not about price. It’s about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It’s 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it’s great.’ – Fergie
‘I didn’t finish university, I barely finished high school. All I know is from the books I’ve read, and the plays that I’ve read.’ – Jacob Elordi
‘If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.’ – Charles Morgan
‘My mom was pregnant with me when she was 15 years old. She went to a majority white school so of course her being 15 years old, pregnant by a Black man, that was just too much for them to handle.’ – Latto
‘On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.’ – Nelson Mandela
‘I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.’ – Bessie Coleman
‘My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous – he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.’ – Louise Erdrich
‘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
‘I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.’ – Reese Witherspoon
‘Academically, I was thick. School wasn’t bad, but I was.’ – Brian Clough
‘In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.’ – Stephen Hawking
‘The only social rule you recognized in high school was that Mormon girls don’t date non-Mormons.’ – Mike Budenholzer
‘Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn’t have a program like that, set one up.’ – Lindsey Shaw
‘Getting into a sleep routine before the first week of school will aid in easing the shock of waking up early.’ – Chuck Norris
‘The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.’ – Robert Kiyosaki
‘If you win a Super Bowl before you’re fired, you’re a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.’ – John Madden
‘I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.’ – Travis Scott
‘I’ve got one grandson gone to MIT. Another grandson had been in the American school here. Because he was dyslexic, and we then didn’t have the teachers to teach him how to overcome or cope with his dyslexia, so he was given exemption to go to the American school. He speaks like an American. He’s going to Wharton.’ – Lee Kuan Yew
‘Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.’ – Kurt Cobain
‘I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.’ – George Lucas
‘My daughter writes and is the editor of her school magazine.’ – Manini Mishra
‘Transportation is responsible for half of our state’s air pollution, and many suffer as a result. Children are more likely to develop respiratory illnesses and struggle in school when they breathe smoggy air.’ – Alex Padilla
‘When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn’t fit in, and it was pretty lonely.’ – Pedro Pascal
‘I was supposed to be in ‘The Wire’ but I was getting in trouble in school and on the streets.’ – Gervonta Davis
‘Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.’ – Abraham Maslow
‘I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist – a wonderful thing for a writer.’ – Neil Gaiman
‘I grew up middle class – my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.’ – Dana Carvey
‘Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.’ – Samuel Smiles
‘High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.’ – Giancarlo Stanton
‘Athletics is the mother of all sport and every child must try out it once during his school days.’ – Milkha Singh
‘When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.’ – Jerry Dammers
‘We were a gun-free school zone, when one of our schoolmates brought guns to school and took our school hostage. I never want anyone to have to be in that situation, again, and the fear I felt, taught me a very good lesson is our Second Amendment is one of our greatest freedoms we have, and I believe we have to protect it at all costs.’ – Marjorie Taylor Greene
‘I never went to school to study acting, so I’m doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.’ – Mia Goth
‘I’m pretty sure the first album I bought was a CD of ‘Electric Ladyland’ by Jimi Hendrix when I was about nine. I got it for my best friend from school at the time, because we loved Hendrix and became obsessed with ‘Crosstown Traffic’ in particular. I think it was for his birthday, but I definitely ripped it onto my MP3 player at some point.’ – Declan McKenna
‘Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.’ – Angela Rayner
‘Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people ‘the cops.’ But you know, sometimes, you’ve just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!’ – Dave Attell
‘I’ve never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.’ – Jeff Kinney
‘I didn’t love school.’ – Kim Kardashian
‘I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.’ – Tim Ferriss
‘Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school – but also leading her village to a better future.’ – Craig Kielburger
‘I’ve never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for ‘talking funny.” – Gina Bellman
‘Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.’ – B. B. King
‘I grew up here in St. Albert, which is a city just north of Edmonton, and I went to Grade 10 here at Paul Kane High School. But then I went to junior in the WHL, Western Hockey League, at age 16. So I left and went to finish school at Norkam High School in Kamloops for grades 11 and 12.’ – Jarome Iginla
‘We don’t classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don’t use the example of one bad teacher in our children’s school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement.’ – Thom Tillis
‘My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.’ – Steve Harvey
‘I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies’ man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn’t like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential ‘God, I exist, and nobody cares’ of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.’ – Joss Whedon
‘I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.’ – Florence Pugh
‘Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight.’ – Khaled Hosseini
‘I would ride my horse to school.’ – Guy Fieri
‘I’m a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I’m a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.’ – Brittany Murphy
‘My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents’ education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.’ – Elif Batuman
‘This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.’ – John D. Rockefeller
‘My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she’d play when I was a baby. Then she would take me to a Saturday dance school. I used to go every week and got spotted by a scout, who suggested I audition for the role of Billy in ‘Billy Elliot the Musical.” – Tom Holland
‘I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.’ – Lana Del Rey
‘I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school – no way. And I had no idea I’d be coaching girls. It’s wild.’ – Liang Chow
‘You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.’ – Henry Ford
‘The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.’ – Will Smith
‘I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.’ – Allison Williams
‘I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I’m funny, but maybe I’m one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?’ – Lil Dicky
‘I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.’ – Elton John
‘I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.’ – Irina Shayk
‘At 15, I refereed my first match, and I was training at my dad’s school even prior to that, so the only thing that I was concerned about – I guess the only thing that made me reluctant and was the reason I was in L.A. and the reason I went to acting school – was I thought maybe I wasn’t big enough – physically big enough – to compete with WWE.’ – Cody Rhodes
‘Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, ‘with liberty and justice for all,’ and I believed all that.’ – Fred Korematsu
‘I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle… billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn’t start growing until the last year of high school.’ – Mads Mikkelsen
‘The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt
‘I’m old school. I’m not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.’ – James Harden
‘I love old school rock and roll.’ – Don Lemon
‘America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor’s appointment.’ – Greg Abbott
‘We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.’ – Michelle Obama
‘I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.’ – Greta Thunburg
‘I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.’ – Jesse McCartney
‘I mean, I went to a Catholic boys’ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.’ – Keanu Reeves
‘For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.’ – Gerald R. Ford
‘I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.’ – Amy Winehouse
‘I learned English in a pub. I didn’t learn it in school.’ – Guenther Steiner
‘I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that’s for sure, for joking around.’ – Matthew Perry
‘A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.’ – Lynn Schusterman
‘From getting good grades in school, to thinking about getting a good career and settling down, we all have been running a rat race. We always thought that we were doing it for ourselves but actually we were doing it for others. Like, I realized, I never had time for myself.’ – Gurmeet Choudhary
‘Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.’ – Julian Bond
‘My first job after drama school was with Stanley Kubrick. It was only a few lines in ‘A Clockwork Orange’, but I was working with a master of cinema.’ – Carol Drinkwater
‘I grew up on the west side of Detroit – 6 mile and Wyoming – so I was really in the ‘hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the ‘hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.’ – Big Sean
‘In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.’ – Stephen Covey
‘Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?’ – Zig Ziglar
‘In 1967, my mother – then Francie Weinman – graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.’ – Dana Bash
‘This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! – Henny Youngman’ – Henny Youngman
‘I used to play baseball. I was playing even in high school.’ – King Von
‘Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.’ – Izabel Goulart
‘In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‘We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” – Jimmy Carter
‘Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
‘If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.’ – Lenny Bruce
‘You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors – they’re the cool seniors.’ – Owen Wilson
‘Frankly, I’m not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It’s not just that public schools aren’t producing the results we want – it’s that we’re not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.’ – Eli Broad
‘People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.’ – Emily Blunt
‘There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.’ – Ricky Gervais
‘I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.’ – Donald Glover
‘Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.’ – Erma Bombeck
‘Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.’ – Stephen King
‘I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither mean nor stupid. What we have here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture, combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo.’ – Molly Ivins
‘I’ve been super-fresh since elementary school. I’d lay out all my clothes, my Jordans right there, I know what cologne I’m gonna wear, my boxers match my socks.’ – Riff Raff
‘A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of ‘success.’ Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?’ – David Icke
‘I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn’t run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.’ – Angus Young
‘When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.’ – Young Thug
‘I don’t mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven’t really thought about it since then. I don’t go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I’m in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don’t really think about it very much.’ – Taylor Swift
‘Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.’ – John Wayne
‘I was 17 and out of school, living with my mom, starving, not eating, getting locked up, no focus, no guidance. When you ain’t got no guidance, you can’t do too much. But then I had my first son and started working. I got the right people around me.’ – Lil Durk
‘Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.’ – Ellen Ochoa
‘Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I’d done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.’ – Neil Peart
‘Throughout life, a positive attitude is important because without it one has a more difficult time achieving any measure of success, whether it be in school, athletics or the working world.’ – Mike Webster
‘I don’t know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People started to like it. It was what I wanted to do.’ – YoungBoy Never Broke Again
‘When I was in high school in the ’50s, all pop music – Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard – was aimed at teenagers. I loved that stuff.’ – Robert Hilburn
‘I’ve always been athletic – I ran track in high school – and it kept my blood pressure in check over the years. Once I was diagnosed with hypertension, I stepped up my workouts.’ – Regina King
‘I coach my daughter’s softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.’ – Tim McGraw
‘I was never very good at school with… humanities… anything which was more a matter of opinion.’ – Terence Tao
‘When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y’know, ‘What does your dad do for a living?’ So I said ‘He helps women get pregnant!’ They called my mom and they were like, ‘What exactly does your husband do?” – Natalie Portman
‘In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.’ – Brian Eno
‘My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school! – Natalie Babbitt’ – Natalie Babbitt
‘We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation – no compromise, no filibuster – and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.’ – Bayard Rustin
”Back To Love’ is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it’s a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.’ – Anthony Hamilton
‘I went to school at Juilliard, and most of our training there is the classics, and as much as I thrive in contemporary, weird, experimental work, I really am excited about finding a pioneer woman or something from a different era that I could really sink my teeth into.’ – Gayle Rankin
‘My happiest moments are when I’m with my family and when I go to the park at school with my friends.’ – Jacob Tremblay
‘Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.’ – Jacques Barzun
‘After a semester, I left Cal Poly to attend a local community college – Palomar in San Marcos. It was the best move. I worked, saved money and eventually transferred to a different state school. In all, I went to college for three years.’ – Taylor Tomlinson
‘I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.’ – Oscar Wilde
‘I went to an all-girls’ Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, ‘Mum, that’s it – I need to go where there are some boys.” – Freida Pinto
‘My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules.’ – GRiZ
‘The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for ‘West Side Story.’ I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.’ – Gary Sinise
‘Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don’t really fit the preppy boater kind of style.’ – Christian Siriano
‘I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn’t beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that ‘Harry Potter’ wasn’t cool. I wasn’t part of the ‘Terminator’ franchise.’ – Tom Felton
‘Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.’ – Rick Springfield
‘You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.’ – Stephen Ambrose
‘Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?’ – John Keats
‘Cycling is a good school for life. It makes you hard and gives you ambition, but you can never say you’ve arrived.’ – Eddy Merckx
‘I remember singing as a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral, having won a music scholarship to go to school there, and realising for the first time in my life what true excellence was.’ – David Lammy
‘My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.’ – John Kennedy
‘I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.’ – Albert Ellis
‘Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.’ – The Weeknd
‘Fighting for kids has been my lifelong mission. Right out of high school, I went to work at a camp that served disadvantaged adolescents. When I became a recreation therapist, I worked with children battling severe mental illness.’ – Laura Kelly
‘I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.’ – Kailash Satyarthi
‘I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.’ – Carl Sagan
‘Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.’ – Miranda Otto
‘I grew up Valley Stream until my parents moved to Florida when I was 20. I graduated from Valley Stream Central High School in 1985. It was the best childhood anyone could ever ask for.’ – Jim Breuer
‘When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.’ – Kendrick Lamar
‘I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.’ – Anthony Hopkins
‘Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.’ – Tucker Max
‘I went and worked for my dad after school. I’d show up late and stuff like that.’ – Chris Farley
‘This is what people don’t understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It’s not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It’s because kids – and this is the problem with school lunch right now – are getting sugar, fat, empty calories – lots of calories – but no nutrition.’ – Tom Colicchio
‘The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.’ – Larry Elder
‘When I was in high school, there was ‘Superbad’ and ‘The Girl Next Door’ and ‘Wedding Crashers’ and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that’s smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like ‘Superbad.’ That movie was so good and so funny.’ – Miles Teller
‘I failed public speaking in grade school, ’cause I was so nervous and scared.’ – Gary Clark, Jr.
‘I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn’t deal with them.’ – Manu Bennett
‘Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that’s what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.’ – Jenni Rivera
‘I wasn’t good in school. I didn’t do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, ‘That’s what rock is.” – Chris Cornell
‘I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law school might do: use the library, eat in the dining hall, attend classes.’ – Medgar Evers
‘History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.’ – Rosa Luxemburg
‘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
‘My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.’ – Peter Dinklage
‘Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.’ – Heidi Klum
‘I’m an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.’ – JWoww
‘All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.’ – Mark Zuckerberg
‘When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very ‘tomboy’ at the time, I wasn’t interested. But then I had a bit of teenage rebellion, and I saw modeling as an opportunity to get away from school and parents, so I thought, ‘OK, maybe I will be a model.” – Suki Waterhouse
‘When I was a youth, to be called ‘African’ was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I’m saying lyrics like, ‘I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,’ that was a big deal for me.’ – Skepta
‘When you’re doing a medieval show like ‘Pillars,’ it starts off a bit like a school play. You’re all in funny costumes; you’ve had your coffee, and you say, ‘Good morning’. Then you go on set and, if you’ve got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.’ – Ian McShane
‘At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.’ – Maria Montessori
‘School didn’t work for me. I hated it.’ – Gary Paulsen
‘After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows.’ – Eddie the Eagle
‘A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.’ – Tina Fey
”No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.’ – Dianne Feinstein
‘I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren’t allowed to really watch anything violent, even ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” – Maggie Grace
‘Back when the UFC first started, I wanted to see what MMA was all about; at the time, I was training with Tank Abbott, and so I went to see him fight. While at the fight, I saw this guy fighting that I just crushed in high school wrestling, and I thought, ‘Hey, I’m a street fighter, and I have a wrestling background,’ so I gave it a shot.’ – Tito Ortiz
‘You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.’ – Lemmy
‘We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.’ – Kate Brown
‘To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful.’ – William Butler Yeats
‘I went to school for singing, middle school at LaGuardia High School. Followed by Berkeley College of Music and afterwards I went to acting school at the Neighborhood Playhouse for Theater.’ – Jasmine Cephas Jones
‘I am all about old school romance. I love everything about the classic relationships.’ – Aditya Roy Kapur
‘After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.’ – Chris Rock
‘Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.’ – Arne Jacobsen
‘There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.’ – William Glasser
‘You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.’ – Eli Whitney
‘After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.’ – Shirley Jones
‘I think I veered towards filmmaking because there’s more of a sense of control in it. You’re not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler
‘I grew up in Bridlington until I was 16, and I lived with my mum and my sisters. I finished school, got my GCSE’s, and at the time I didn’t know what I wanted to do.’ – Charlie Heaton
‘I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I’m releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.’ – Passenger
‘NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.’ – Christa McAuliffe
‘I never understand when people say, ‘School days are the best of your life.’ So it’s all downhill from 16? How depressing.’ – Marsha Thomason
‘My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends’ grandparents.’ – Jack White
‘I didn’t want to act like I’m too cool for school or anything like that.’ – Morgan Wallen
‘High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn’t really know my place or where I fit in.’ – Meaghan Rath
‘I’d never played on a team until high school. It gave me a sense of belonging, a focus, and helped build my confidence. I liked the feeling of accomplishment and the respect. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.’ – Howie Long
‘I got kicked out of school because I was wilding.’ – J.I.D
‘My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.’ – Ram Shriram
‘I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn’t go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.’ – Charlie Hunnam
‘So, I was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in Southern Idaho. But my dad had some radical beliefs. And because of those beliefs, we were isolated. So I was never allowed to go to school or to the doctor.’ – Tara Westover
‘I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.’ – Bo Burnham
‘Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.’ – Charlie Sheen
‘By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.’ – Rutger Hauer
‘I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.’ – Snoop Dogg
‘I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I’m a person who lives very in the moment.’ – MS Dhoni
‘In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal… I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn’t have power, didn’t have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.’ – Goodluck Jonathan
‘I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to California my senior year because I knew I wanted to be an actor, but I also wanted to finish school and get my degree. I took mainly a bunch of criminal justice courses online for the last year because that’s all that they offered.’ – Drew Seeley
‘I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn
‘I was a high school teacher when I joined Bullet Club and started going to Japan.’ – Adam Page
‘I left school and didn’t go to university to be in a band.’ – James Acaster
‘I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks.’ – Eugenie Clark
‘Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It’s still numb.’ – Masatoshi Koshiba
‘In order to do ‘Amores Perros,’ I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.’ – Gael Garcia Bernal
‘Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I’d binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po’ boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I’d always turn to food.’ – Richard Simmons
‘I was real skinny in high school. I was real fast and explosive. I just didn’t really have a good nutrition plan; I didn’t understand how important it was to be healthy. I was eating hot fries, potato chips in the morning, Capri Sun. That was like my breakfast. That changed when I got to college – I put on 20 pounds of muscle.’ – Antonio Brown
‘Growing up poor, I didn’t even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn’t even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn’t love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.’ – George Foreman
‘I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different – more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.’ – Keke Palmer
‘I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.’ – Kevin Gates
‘You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that’s wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that’s worse. This is a day.’ – Andy Samberg
‘The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That’s it. I’ll house you, protect you, I’ll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.’ – Gene Simmons
‘There’s a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘I learned Spanish as my second language from middle school through high school. I grew up volunteering at homeless shelters and tutoring kids of Latin immigrants in Atlanta, who didn’t speak any English. That prepared me for when I traveled.’ – Eric Nam
‘I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds – singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice.’ – Michelle Visage
‘I think everything that you do, you’re learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that’s one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.’ – Peter Jackson
‘I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.’ – Karl Lagerfeld
‘I was born in New Hampshire, moved to Tennessee when I was 9, and lived there through high school, then went to school at College of Charleston, so definitely a lot of pieces of the South there.’ – Matt Czuchry
‘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
‘School is the same as producing: If you want to make it far, there are a million, trillion people trying to do the same thing. If you’re not in over-grind mode, it’s probably not going to work the way that you want it to.’ – Metro Boomin
‘School, social interaction is our first reresponse to child abuse. It’s witnessing it, seeing it, reporting it.’ – Will Cain
‘My first secondary school was in East Finchley, and I was one of only five white people in the year. I was really skinny and flat-chested with frizzy hair. I don’t consider myself posh, but my mum brought me up to speak properly, and they picked up on that, as all kids do.’ – Kaya Scodelario
‘The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.’ – Henry Ward Beecher
‘I just did what I loved – flowers and rock n’ roll. Pretty and punk. I was largely inspired by my dancing school classes and costumes.’ – Betsey Johnson
‘We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.’ – Evelyn Waugh
‘I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, ‘What are these people going to think of me?” – Sebastian Stan
‘I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families’ lives.’ – Michael N. Castle
‘At ‘The School of Life’, we take seriously anything that has to do with human fulfilment – and take note wherever insight on this subject can be found.’ – Alain de Botton
‘Growing up I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup in school, so all my friends would have like lipstick and eyeliner on, and I wasn’t allowed to. So I was always jealous.’ – Bella Poarch
‘Mostly, I was into powerlifting when I was in high school. And I just continued to train the same way I was taught – to powerlift. Once I started doing bodybuilding, there were no real differences, just different exercises. A different way of training with more repetitions, but it was still the same lifting of very heavy weights to get stronger.’ – Ronnie Coleman
‘I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn’t have to drop out of school.’ – Kris Holden-Ried
‘I was wrestling all the way to high school, but it kind of came in the same season as basketball, so I had to pick and choose one, and I decided to go all the way with basketball.’ – Muggsy Bogues
‘I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from people around me.’ – Karthik Subbaraj
‘Every teacher in elementary school loved me because I was always goofing around. I was taller than most of the guys and girls, and fattest, too.’ – Nikola Jokic
‘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
‘I’m a New Yorker, originally. I was raised in Jackson Heights. I went to P.S. 148 and then Newtown High School. If World War II didn’t come, I’d still be there in school. World War II saved me.’ – Don Rickles
‘When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn’t carry on with it, which I regret.’ – Emilia Fox
‘The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.’ – Gordon Moore
‘I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the ’80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.’ – Demetri Martin
‘I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.’ – Rosa Parks
‘Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.’ – Jason Statham
‘I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.’ – Theo James
‘My favorite was ‘The Lost Boys.’ Corey Haim wore this trench coat, and I made my mum buy me a trench coat. I wore it to school, to primary school.’ – Taika Waititi
‘I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted… I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.’ – Bharati Mukherjee
‘My parents were actors. And so I was born in New York City, and when I was 7, they quit acting and went back to medical school at the University Of Chicago.’ – Adam Pally
‘I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to – wanted to do my own songs.’ – Avril Lavigne
‘A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.’ – Barbra Streisand
‘It’s fine to have anal sex as long as you’re not in high school.’ – Mia Kirshner
‘No skill shapes a child’s future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.’ – Bob Riley
‘At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.’ – Philip Zimbardo
‘I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone… just like everybody else.’ – Michael Cera
‘If you go back to your home town or you’re reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there’s nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you’re no longer a part of it.’ – Edgar Wright
‘When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after ‘School of Rock,’ I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.’ – Miranda Cosgrove
‘When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, ‘I’m whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend…’ Why can’t you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?’ – Vanessa Kirby
‘I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn’t do well in school.’ – Francis Ford Coppola
‘My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That’s what my parents called me. I also got ‘Teddy Ruxpin’ a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out ‘James Franco’ my junior year of high school, I didn’t correct her.’ – James Franco
‘I’m actually from Mt. Kisco, New York, which is in Westchester County, and when I auditioned for ‘Dukes,’ I told them I was from Snailville, Georgia, which doesn’t exist, and I’d just graduated first in my class from the Georgia School of High Performance Driving, which also doesn’t exist. But they bought it.’ – John Schneider
‘The Biden Administration provides federal tax-payer funding to NGOs to indiscreetly shelter, purchase airplane tickets, and provide instructions on how to get through TSA without proper ID, along with how to enroll children into school once they reach their destination.’ – George Santos
‘A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.’ – Gwendolyn Brooks
‘As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ I had no facial hair. For ‘Men in Black 3,’ I had no facial hair but did wear a wig.’ – Mike Colter
‘Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.’ – Arrian
‘At school, my favourite subject was social studies.’ – Mary Kom
‘Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on.’ – Rick Moranis
‘I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don’t think Hollywood would’ve known what to do with me. If I hadn’t done ‘Beetlejuice,’ I think I would’ve just gone back to my school.’ – Winona Ryder
‘My working-class Italian-American parents didn’t go to school, there were no books in the house.’ – Martin Scorsese
‘The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone’s attention. They want to hear what the guy from ‘Con Air’ and ‘Desperado’ has to say.’ – Danny Trejo
‘I’ve been embracing gray hair since… high school, and I don’t think that anything’s changed since then.’ – Taylor Hicks
‘When you go to Africa, and you see children, they’re usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they’d love to go to school.’ – Annie Lennox
‘I really wished I’d learned Spanish. I took it all in high school and was planning on trying to be fluent in it. I would get Selena tracks and sing with them and stuff like that.’ – Kirstin Maldonado
‘You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn’t.’ – Kevin James
‘I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.’ – Christine Ebersole
‘I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, ‘I’ll arrange a marriage for you at 18,’ but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.’ – Indra Nooyi
‘I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.’ – Sofia Vergara
‘Yeah, I was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. My parents lived in a little town called Eagle Grove. My mom taught high school and my dad was an instructor at the community college.’ – Katie Porter
‘I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.’ – Alice Waters
‘I’ve led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I’ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I’ve learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.’ – Elena Kagan
‘People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means… ‘Educo’ means to bring out.’ – Peter Tosh
‘When you talk about bullying I always go back to when I was at school, a bully was a big kid picking on a little kid.’ – Troy Deeney
‘I played for Middlesbrough’s youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that they weren’t signing me on, so that was the end of that dream. Football was my life. I played football when I got to school, football every break and football as soon as I got home.’ – Bob Mortimer
‘I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn’t need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.’ – Max Thieriot
‘I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.’ – Ruskin Bond
‘You could be a corrupt doctor, but at least you have to go to the medical school first. Right?’ – David Fahrenthold
‘I don’t think, because I’m going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.’ – Sydney Sweeney
‘I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.’ – Colin Powell
‘When I was young we weren’t even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it ‘vernacular,’ as if only English was the real tongue.’ – Fela Kuti
‘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
‘I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was… name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.’ – Cormac McCarthy
‘Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out.’ – Morris Gleitzman
‘In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien
‘When I graduated from UCLA, I actually started interviewing for banking jobs. But at some point I realized a career in banking felt more like a continuation of school than a passion.’ – Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
‘I was in high school – and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools.’ – Brett Kavanaugh
‘I was in high school and 9/11 happened. My boyfriend joined the army and I was extremely disgusted with this war fervour.’ – Abby Martin
‘My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.’ – Angie Thomas
‘I just turned 40, and it’s weird to think that I’ve been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn’t do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing ‘Young and the Restless.’ Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.’ – Paul Walker
‘When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.’ – Ivana Trump
‘I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.’ – Mitski
‘I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.’ – Stephen Curry
‘It was always like that. After school, we would eat and then it was straight into the garden to play football. We would play for hours.’ – Bukayo Saka
‘I failed my exams and my driving test. I failed to get into the Foreign Office and drama school. The big F was dominant in my early years.’ – Ben Fogle
‘I was very, very naughty in school.’ – Barun Sobti
‘When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.’ – Dwight Yoakam
‘As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.’ – Cokie Roberts
‘Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.’ – Chris Gabrieli
‘My teacher told me I’d never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.’ – Curtis Mayfield
‘I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I’ve got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.’ – Scott Adkins
‘I was probably the worst calculus student in the history of my high school.’ – Steve Kornacki
‘I’m 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in ‘CR Fashion Book’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ came out. It was crazy!’ – Gigi Hadid
‘Cyberbullying isn’t real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They’ve got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.’ – Milo Yiannopoulos
‘For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.’ – Jim Carrey
‘I went to USC where there’s a huge Greek system. The school is in a pretty seedy area, so the only social life is at these fraternities. I never joined one myself, but I had a lot of friends who were in frats and I would go to those parties. I had a healthy dose of being around frat life while I was in school.’ – Dave Franco
‘But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn’t having it. She was like, you’re not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you’re going to be out of luck.’ – Shemar Moore
‘Karan Thapar is an endangered species. They don’t make them like him anymore. True, thousands have gone to the Doon Valley School after him, as indeed to Oxford and Cambridge universities. But Karan Thapar is more than the sum of his upbringing. He’s a gentleman journalist.’ – Sanjaya Baru
‘When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they’ve learnt from it, it’s sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.’ – Jean-Pascal Tricoire
‘My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.’ – Kyle Lowry
‘When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid did a wrestling fall on him and hit his spine. We had to take care of him. I went from being the baby to not really being the baby anymore.’ – Scottie Pippen
‘I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. ‘Flirta D’s your cousin?’ ‘Yeah, buddy.’ ‘He must be a millionaire!” – Sampha
‘One of the things I was taught in law school is that I’d never be able to think the same again – that being a lawyer is something that’s part of who I am as an individual now.’ – Anita Hill
‘If I’m being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up – whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.’ – Brent Faiyaz
‘I’ll tell you right now. I’m for prayer in school.’ – Kinky Friedman
‘I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.’ – Charles Lamb
‘Being famous is just like being in high school. But I’m not interested in being the cheerleader. I’m not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She’s the cheerleader, and I’m out in the smoker shed.’ – Courtney Love
‘A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.’ – Matt Cartwright
‘Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they’re opposed to it.’ – B. D. Wong
‘Going onstage – that’s my joy. You know like when you’re in school and you’re just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That’s me in life.’ – Burna Boy
‘What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn’t have any friends, and I wasn’t allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was the loneliness in school every day.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.’ – Kyla Pratt
‘Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.’ – Lillian Smith
‘I went to a boys’ school, and I didn’t realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.’ – Thom Yorke
‘We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. ‘I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through’ – well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.’ – Michael Fassbender
‘Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.’ – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
‘I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don’t let your kids play.’ – Larry Brown
‘With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it’s like to live in someone else’s shoes.’ – John Irving
‘I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: ‘What’s the meaning of life? What if I don’t like this job I’ve been programmed to do?” – Rich Moore
‘We know that children who are healthier do not require medical treatment or care, both of which cost time and money. So, by avoiding illness, infants have a greater chance of growing into healthier children who are able to attend school and become more productive members of society.’ – Seth Berkley
‘One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‘Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.’ You have no idea of the competition.’ – Alice Munro
‘I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It’s my hippie way of life.’ – Alanis Morissette
‘I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.’ – Camille Guaty
‘School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.’ – Amber Heard
‘I went through a lot of battles in high school.’ – LeBron James
‘I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don’t know how to get that out of the information that’s out there.’ – Channing Tatum
‘It’s funny how all of this has worked out – I wasn’t popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I’m throwing up.’ – Jimmy Kimmel
‘I never went to drama school. It’s a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end.’ – Callum Turner
‘I was always the new kid in school, I’m the kid from a broken family, I’m the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I’m the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.’ – Dave Mustaine
‘I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn’t do in my rough neighborhood.’ – Sherman Hemsley
‘There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don’t get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don’t get them.’ – T. D. Jakes
‘A good school teaches you resilience – that ability to bounce back.’ – Kate Reardon
‘To this day, I still haven’t touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven’t blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.’ – Rob Gronkowski
‘I have studied at the school of the world.’ – Youssou N’Dour
‘To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that’s all I would be remembered for.’ – Helen Reddy
‘I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest – it’s part of my DNA. It’s kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.’ – James Carville
‘I was raised with ‘Laurel and Hardy’ and ‘I Love Lucy’ and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it’s the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you’re performing in your bedroom for yourself.’ – Steve Martin
‘Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.’ – Ann Bancroft
‘A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.’ – H. L. Mencken
‘Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.’ – Sylvia Plath
‘I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.’ – Shane Carruth
‘The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.’ – Alice Cooper
‘All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.’ – Magic Johnson
‘Hawaii is a melting pot of people and my school specifically has a lot of diversity that personally inspires me in everything I do.’ – Bretman Rock
‘I was fat when I was a kid. I was a little chunkier, but that’s boring because everyone was fat when they were a kid, right? Didn’t we all go through a chubby stage? Mine maybe lasted a little longer – mine went until, like, the end of high school.’ – Josh Segarra
‘By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.’ – Halle Berry
‘I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me… Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.’ – J. D. Vance
‘One of the most important things, especially when you’re leaving school, is to realize you’re going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you’re in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don’t do it.’ – Lewis Black
‘But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.’ – Nikita Khrushchev
‘School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.’ – John Taylor Gatto
‘Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.’ – Malala Yousafzai
”School of Rock’ is fun. Hopefully, I’ve fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.’ – Andrew Lloyd Webber
‘When I was younger, I played football and table tennis for local teams. I also played mini-rugby at primary school – I was tall for my age – and Preston Grasshoppers wanted me, but I wasn’t that interested in rugby. It was always going to be cricket for me.’ – Andrew Flintoff
‘Growing up in high school, I wasn’t hanging out with friends every day or on the weekends. Doing normal high school kid things was something I was willing to give up.’ – Michael Phelps
‘Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.’ – Alison Gopnik
‘When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I’d write letters and go ‘Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you’re doing something.” – Kristin Kreuk
‘I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall.’ – Claudia Schiffer
‘While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.’ – Alex Hirsch
‘When you’re in Ranger School, it sucks. You’re not eating; you’re not sleeping. You’re marching miles – for months at a time. It’s horrible.’ – Tim Kennedy
‘I don’t care about being a literary personality – that doesn’t appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn’t appeal to me. I actually don’t feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, ‘Whatever.” – Ottessa Moshfegh
‘Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.’ – Susan Wojcicki
‘There’s a basis for the war, historically, in the ‘Hunger Games,’ which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus’ war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.’ – Suzanne Collins
‘But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.’ – Oprah Winfrey
‘I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.’ – Shakira
‘I was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, lived there a couple of times. My dad was in the Navy. So, we lived in Mississippi and South Carolina until I was 11, and then I moved to California, went to, you know, high school there in the Monterey Bay area.’ – Jennifer Palmieri
‘I grew up as a British kid – I went to school in London, roamed the streets of London – but having these interactions with my roots and going back to Ghana, I’m like, ‘Yeah this is sick.’ I love my country and my people, and the energy and vibes that they bring back. So I want to rep that and be a part of it.’ – Stormzy
‘As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.’ – Jane Goodall
‘When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ And that was it.’ – Ana de Armas
‘My parent’s divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn’t necessarily have had otherwise.’ – Christina Aguilera
‘I didn’t care for school much – it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the ‘tawse’ was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid – but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the ‘dux,’ as the best pupil was called.’ – Angus Deaton
‘School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.’ – Ivan Illich
‘For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-blue attitude that the AAU spouts. If that’s important to some people, fine, more power to ’em. But, damn it, I wish they’d leave me alone to do what I want to do – run against the best.’ – Steve Prefontaine
‘A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.’ – Lynn Coady
‘I’ve lived an amazing life. There’s no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don’t want to be stuck in the rut? Then don’t look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.’ – Francesco Quinn
‘I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?’ – Mick Jagger
‘I don’t know if anyone knows if they’re ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn’t act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in ‘Romeo and Juliet.” – Sam Heughan
‘When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.’ – Greta Gerwig
‘Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.’ – Chad Smith
‘I went to university in Leeds, and I graduated in 2016 and moved to London with the intention of applying to drama school. I was living at my friend’s house; then, I was working as a live-in nanny for a couple of months because I had nowhere else to live.’ – Emma Mackey
‘I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.’ – Cara Delevingne
‘I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.’ – Sylvester Stallone
‘I went to school to learn to be a hairdresser. I worked at a wholesale florist, where I delivered to florists all over New Jersey. I’d come home and go out to work down at the Shore. The early jobs, I remember, were $5, $6 a night. And I lived in the projects right until the time I became successful.’ – Frankie Valli
‘My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, ‘Hey,’ or you would see someone at the mosque, and you’d be like, ‘Hey, that kid’s Shiite!’ There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis.’ – Kumail Nanjiani
‘Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.’ – Major Owens
‘Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline – like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.’ – Flea
‘The American school system’s a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.’ – Adam DeVine
‘I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.’ – Eminem
‘I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word ‘existentialism.” – Craig Ferguson
‘I grew up in Bushwick, and I lived with my mom. She was a single parent with three kids. I’ve got an older brother and a younger sister. We all were pretty active kids, but school wasn’t particularly our strong suit; we were always good at other things.’ – Anthony Ramos
‘I love watching people, and that’s what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o’clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they’re talking about.’ – Andrea Corr
‘When I started wearing makeup, my parents….. were like, ‘You’re absolutely not wearing it out of the house.’ At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school.’ – James Charles
‘I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I’d get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.’ – Tony La Russa
‘Rap is always evolving. It’s easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it’s a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.’ – Ice Cube
‘When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.’ – Sonia Sotomayor
‘I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.’ – Mike Judge
‘High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
‘I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So… it never occurred to me that I couldn’t be an astronomer.’ – Vera Rubin
‘Dad is a skilled athlete and runs his own football school for kids. While football is his entire life and he encouraged us to play, he still found time to take me to ballet and tennis lessons.’ – Montaigne
‘I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.’ – Lil Wayne
‘I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.’ – John Perkins
‘My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to know I better pick a school that is going to help me get to the next level.’ – Sue Bird
‘High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.’ – Nancy Gibbs
‘Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that’s your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.’ – Rachel Zoe
‘You know how you’re in elementary school and the teacher goes around the room and, like, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ I said, ‘NBA player.’ And she’s like, ‘Well, OK. Maybe pick a real job.’ But I really believed it. I felt like I was meant to be here.’ – Kyle Kuzma
‘From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.’ – Philip Baker Hall
‘Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.’ – Ambrose Bierce
‘Mom was a school teacher, and she had to be at work at 7:30 every morning. So Dad was in charge of us three kids around the breakfast table. He always made it creative: he did the bananas with the smiley face and the eyes with peanut butter on top, made us drink grapefruit every morning even though we had to do it holding our noses.’ – Ainsley Earhardt
‘Education, school should prepare us not to morally judge everyone, but to be able to find our own truth in this world of various points of view.’ – Olga Tokarczuk
‘I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.’ – Billy Graham
‘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’ – Antoine Predock
‘When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.’ – George Gamow
‘My first job out of school was the ‘Adventure Time’ pilot. I was lucky enough to have my first lead on a job at a company called Frederator. They were accepting pitches for a shorts program.’ – Pendleton Ward
‘I didn’t have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.’ – Brian Welch
‘In high school, I played football and became an all-American offensive lineman, but my father hadn’t been to any of my games. In those instances, you still hold your head up high. But, when you look up into the stands and you see everyone else’s parents cheering and supporting, you have to just stay focused and push through.’ – Rick Ross
‘Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.’ – Mark Schultz
‘I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I’d run away from those schools. They’d catch me. They’d bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was – it was terrible.’ – Dennis Banks
‘I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
‘I think there’s a part of me that might be my alter ago, like the carefree, do-what-he-wants kind of guy, because I’ve been so restrained most of my life, going to Catholic school and being the good son and the good husband. It’s a fun escape route for me sometimes to lead that life.’ – Kevin Nealon
‘Stay in school kids or you’ll end up being an umpire.’ – Andy Roddick
‘My father was a truck driver. That’s where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.’ – Lindsay Fox
‘School was my sanctuary.’ – Kyler Murray
‘In medical school, it’s quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what’s causing their symptoms.’ – Barry Marshall
‘You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.’ – Christopher Hitchens
‘I did fine at school. Because of my acting work, I did miss all my mocks, which I was absolutely delighted about, and I spent about five months of my Leaving Cert year in Canada because I was doing ‘Young Blades’ there.’ – Robert Sheehan
‘I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents’ house, and that was my identity at school – if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he’d say, ‘Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
‘My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she’s at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn’t think it would be fair; plus, they didn’t have any interest anyway.’ – Howard Schultz
‘I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.’ – Steven Chu
‘I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.’ – David Bowie
‘I was an underground rapper and only 16 years old, a freshman at high school. Bang thought I had potential as a rapper and lyricist, and we went from there. Then Suga joined us.’ – RM
‘The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.’ – Adam Goodes
‘I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for an actual job.’ – Millie Bobby Brown
‘One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: ‘It’s all about the customers!’ And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.’ – Thomas G. Stemberg
‘I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It’s what you learn, what you think. That’s all that counts.’ – Maya Lin
‘I’d never bought a bottle of cologne in my life, never dabbled in Drakkar Noir before the big high school date or Polo before the prom.’ – Michael Paterniti
‘The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.’ – Bill Viola
‘I wasn’t cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.’ – Shia LaBeouf
‘I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a… very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.’ – I. King Jordan
‘I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.’ – Steven Wright
‘My parents wanted me to go to school.’ – SZA
‘I didn’t start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn’t play Pop Warner or anything.’ – Patrick Mahomes
‘I’m into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school… whatever… pop. If it’s really good, I like it. I don’t have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it’s good, I’ll listen to it.’ – Toby Keith
‘I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.’ – Edmund Barton
‘I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn’t want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!’ – Jason Aldean
‘You never hear a country-western station saying ‘We have old school artist Willie Nelson in the house.’ They say ‘We have the legendary Willie Nelson.” – Big Daddy Kane
‘I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.’ – Ed O’Neill
‘When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.’ – Adam Sandler
‘If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It’s always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.’ – Ryan Holiday
‘Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means ‘serving officers daughters association.’ I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.’ – Anushka Sharma
‘I don’t feel I’m qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.’ – Carl Lewis
‘I grew up around a whole bunch of girls, and one thing I realized is what they had on their plate was very different than what I had on mine. The things girls are made to be responsible for is a heavy burden – take care of your younger siblings, do good in school, have some extracurriculars. The pressure is intense.’ – Jason Reynolds
‘I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.’ – Henry Cavill
‘At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.’ – James Dyson
‘The home is the center of life – a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.’ – Matthew Desmond
‘I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn’t particularly helpful.’ – Mickey Drexler
‘I guess I just don’t see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of ‘our team’s better than yours’ – it’s a high school idea. My kids don’t see those dividing lines, and I don’t want to either.’ – Brad Pitt
‘I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.’ – Zoe Kravitz
‘I did improv in junior high school. Figuring out my comedic timing helped my confidence in talking to the bullies and talking to people in class. If I could make them laugh, then I was in; I was OK.’ – Josh Groban
‘I used to live next door to a farm, so every day for awhile, I used to walk over and fed the cows, when I was in school. This was weird because I lived in sort of a subdivision, but this one holdout in our neighborhood in Kansas still had a farm.’ – Paul Rudd
‘I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn’t not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.’ – Richard Carmona
‘At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.’ – Rita Levi-Montalcini
‘When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn’t draw.’ – Ryan North
‘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
‘I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That’s what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!’ – Raini Rodriguez
‘I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.’ – Alexandra Wentworth
‘Our main house is in the country, all our stuff is in the country, and that’s home, though the boys, who are four, two and one, are in school in London during the week.’ – Alexander Armstrong
‘I love mysteries – just in an old school way.’ – Josh Holloway
‘At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, ‘The Round House.’ But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.’ – Philip Roth
‘My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious – she’s just English.’ – Bat for Lashes
‘Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.’ – Ann Richards
‘Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way when acting together as a swarm, flock or school.’ – Louis B. Rosenberg
‘I got bullied and got pulled backwards in my wheelchair and laughed at. I was the only Black person at my school, so I was very singled out.’ – Nicolas Hamilton
‘Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.’ – Danny Glover
‘I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don’t sing. It was driving me crazy. ‘We’re doing ‘Macbeth.’ ‘Yes!’ ‘The musical!’ And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.’ – Charlie Cox
‘I worked as an intern. I worked at a high school. I worked at a college newspaper while I was taking 18 credits while on the basketball team.’ – Stephen A. Smith
‘I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.’ – Nicole Polizzi
‘I went to middle school and high school, and my drama teacher, Ms. Cooper, basically nurtured me. It was always a part of my life, and my parents allowed it to be.’ – Teyonah Parris
‘My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.’ – Edmund Hillary
‘I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.’ – Alan Shepard
‘I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.’ – George Lucas
‘I used to love going to the hat store, like Lids, when I was younger and getting a new hat for the school year or for the summer. I was always super pumped about that.’ – Auston Matthews
‘I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word ‘Alzheimer’s disease.” – Anthony Doerr
‘Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that’s at the center of my music.’ – Juice Wrld
‘I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.’ – Dolly Parton
‘I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I’d have like one teacher, which was really bad.’ – Devon Sawa
‘I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.’ – Ginger Zee
‘My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.’ – Vernon Jordan
‘When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.’ – Loretta Swit
‘I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn’t get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn’t join a biker club.’ – Bob Saget
‘I was ‘gay-bashed’ when I was in school even though, you know, I’m not… I’m a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it’s easily relatable to me. It was awful. It’s a hard time in a kid’s life.’ – Grant Gustin
‘Before ‘Lost Boy,’ I was singing, doing six-second covers on Vine, working part-time and in school, but music was always my true love.’ – Ruth B
‘I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.’ – Adlai Stevenson I
‘A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.’ – Mary Kay Blakely
‘I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it’s everything and if you don’t do well, your life’s over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.’ – Hugh Jackman
‘Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well… it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.’ – Anupam Kher
‘When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn’t want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn’t want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.’ – Bryan Stevenson
‘School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines… which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.’ – Ken Robinson
‘In high school I wore No. 8, in college I wore No. 5, and five plus three is eight and five minus three is two, you know? Addition and subtraction.’ – Jameis Winston
‘I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I’m their godfather, and that’s one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.’ – Matthew Perry
‘In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn’t categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there’s too much I liked about it to give it up completely.’ – Mark Hamill
‘I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.’ – Susana Martinez
‘It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.’ – Paulo Coelho
‘No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he’s ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.’ – Tony Dorsett
‘It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.’ – Sophia Loren
‘The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.’ – Gerard Way
‘I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school… everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy… And being an actor, I’ve been able to use it quite a bit.’ – Tom Wlaschiha
‘I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and everything kind of evolved for me.’ – Lisa Frank
‘College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.’ – Judd Apatow
‘I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.’ – Dakota Fanning
‘My best friends are still the ones I first attached myself to when I went to school because, all of a sudden, I was leaving the rather pampered and occasionally very annoying world of having three older sisters to go to a male-dominated world.’ – James Nesbitt
‘To be a great actor, you really don’t need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.’ – Ranbir Kapoor
‘At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we’d do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing ‘Hero’ by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We’d do it as a duet, and it’s the first I remember performing.’ – Jess Glynne
‘My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?’ – Steve Wynn
‘All of my high school issues are resolved!’ – Oscar Isaac
‘My parents didn’t allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some points, taken complete advantage of simply because of my sex and gender. For a while, in high school, I was so deep into self-hate.’ – Rupi Kaur
‘I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I’ve always been drawn to wearing it. It’s partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.’ – Robert Smith
‘After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum.’ – Hilary Mason
‘It wasn’t until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.’ – Sam Hunt
‘I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.’ – Bobby Flay
‘Even in school, when they asked us what we wanted to be, I wrote, ‘A professional footballer.” – Wendie Renard
‘When I was young we had a collection for the Welsh disaster at Aberfan and we also had a school campaign for Biafra. It is a wake-up call for kids – a way of understanding that it’s not all ‘Blue Peter’ for everyone and that maybe they can help.’ – Lenny Henry
‘I’m very lucky I went to a nice school and I live in a very lovely part of London.’ – Georgia Toffolo
‘I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.’ – Woody Allen
‘I didn’t go to high school, and I didn’t go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.’ – H. L. Hunt
‘Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn’t even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.’ – Brock Lesnar
‘I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.’ – Bad Bunny
‘The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s – two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record – and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.’ – George Michael
‘Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it’s easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you’re waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you’re like, ‘This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ in high school.” – Jonathan Groff
‘Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn’t decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and you have a former prime minister, Olympic gold medallist, army generals, cabinet ministers, and leaders in different spheres. Some kind of training started at the school level itself that helped create leaders.’ – Roshni Nadar
‘I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in ‘Life Goes On,’ and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think – I never had to do anything for myself.’ – Kellie Martin
‘I just hate sitting and writing – I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.’ – Saul Kripke
‘I went to Harvard College, grew up in Boston, and went to high school in Boston.’ – Lawrence O’Donnell
‘I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.’ – Mary Ellen Mark
‘I actually went to an arts middle school with Shia LaBeouf, but even there, I was one of the weirder kids.’ – Thundercat
‘I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.’ – Sarah Hyland
‘Like, even going to Duke Ellington School of the Arts, like, they slept on me. I think they thought I was talented, but for whatever reason, they didn’t want to give me a lot of solos or any type of just love like that. But I don’t know. I think that’s what encouraged me to grind so hard.’ – Ari Lennox
‘I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my house in high school. These are not cool things.’ – Sam Esmail
‘I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools ’cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.’ – Offset
‘When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.’ – Christine Gregoire
‘A lot of people ask me, ‘How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?’ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.’ – Taylor Swift
‘I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, ‘What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?” – Nancy Roman
‘When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.’ – Florence Henderson
‘I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.’ – Salman Rushdie
‘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
‘People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it’s a week, then a month, then a year. It’s bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes.’ – Hoda Kotb
‘I’ve always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.’ – David Tennant
‘I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you’re not allowed to watch TV.’ – Jennifer Aniston
‘My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn’t a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing – it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people – when you came home from school and your mum wasn’t in, there were lots of people you could go to.’ – Peter Capaldi
‘Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that’s where the problem starts – because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who’s ‘liked’ a photo of them, who hates them, who loves them. They don’t know what’s real and what’s not, editing their lives constantly to fit other people’s views.’ – Jessie J
‘I started working with Special Olympics when I was 17 years old. I’ll never forget the first time I did it: I was at Weber State, and it was the summer before I started school. We have to get up in the morning and do this Special Olympics camp.’ – Damian Lillard
‘I went to pick my son up from school and walked him back and was in the house preparing dinner, and he came in the house and gave me this flower of chrysanthemum that was full of ants. And he went back out to play and ran out into the street and got hit by a car. The car happened to be driven by a LAPD detective.’ – Susan Burton
‘Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.’ – Dean Smith
‘Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy’s naughty at school, he’s a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl’s naughty, she’s trouble.’ – Emily Berrington
‘I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes… they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas… you wouldn’t even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.’ – John C. Reilly
‘The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.’ – H. Rap Brown
‘Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.’ – Ernie Banks
‘I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.’ – Bobby Fischer
‘I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I’d always finish up with a tutor. I couldn’t do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.’ – Candace Cameron Bure
‘You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb… I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother’s signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.’ – Graydon Carter
‘If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.’ – Lou Williams
‘I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.’ – Michelle Obama
‘I played pee-wee football coming up. If I had known the type of chicks they would get when I was in school, I’d probably focused on it a little more.’ – Yo Gotti
‘Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being ‘different’ will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.’ – Alexandra Robbins
‘I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was exposed to a Church of England school, so I got my Senior Cambridge certificate.’ – Saeed Jaffrey
‘Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me ‘Duck.” – Donald Dunn
‘It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.’ – Hermann Hesse
‘Then, when I got in the military, I used to host – even in high school – I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.’ – Gary Owens
‘Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn’t go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.’ – Richard Linklater
‘At 9, I started taking classes at Sylvia Young Theatre School. One day, they asked if I wanted to join their agency. You get in if you’re cute, I guess.’ – Ella Purnell
‘I’ve known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.’ – Billy Crystal
‘My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.’ – Maira Kalman
‘There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life’s challenges.’ – Jared Polis
‘We had a motto in my school: ‘Men for Others.’ And it was there that my faith became something vital. My north star for orienting my life. And when I left high school, I knew that I wanted to battle for social justice.’ – Tim Kaine
‘When I studied in DPS Mathura Road in Delhi, there was a school for blind exactly opposite to our school. I used to go there every week and spend time seeing how these students played cricket and did other things normally.’ – Shriya Saran
‘Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation.’ – Temple Grandin
‘When ‘Jewel’ was screened, old friends from school and university got back in touch. More than one of them told me that their partners hated Merrick so much they could not think of having me in the house. This kind of audience identification does not happen in any other medium.’ – Tim Pigott-Smith
‘I’ve always been on the outside looking in. I was never popular in school, despite my success in athletics. I would win track and field competitions, but I wouldn’t go to parties. I’d be alone.’ – Kenny Omega
‘Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I’ve been speaking English since I could speak.’ – Yael Grobglas
‘Parents have absolutely every right to express their opinions at public school board meetings concerning their children’s education.’ – Lauren Boebert
‘I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.’ – Rocky Graziano
‘There was a sort of chain in school. I wasn’t, like, mad at the top, but I wasn’t right at the bottom, either.’ – Santan Dave
‘Fitting in is unnecessary. Embrace who you are. You will go through rough times in high school, but always stay strong, and never deny yourself!’ – Neon Hitch
‘My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I’d make a career in it but I never had any plan B.’ – Jenson Button
‘The curriculum of the school did not neglect India’s cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.’ – Amartya Sen
‘I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I’m interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for – trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn’t normally appeal to.’ – Danny McBride
‘When we were growing up, I got kicked out of Timbaland’s house every day. He was the DJ for my brother’s rap group in junior high school. So I was 7, and while Tim’s DJ’ing and my brother’s rapping, I’d be upstairs dancing.’ – Pusha T
‘I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn’t one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.’ – Erich Bergen
‘I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.’ – Tim Henman
‘When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.’ – Jurgen Klopp
‘I’ve grown up with a really strong group of women around – my mum, sister and auntie, and I’ve had the same five girl mates since school.’ – Gemma Atkinson
‘My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don’t speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I’m proud to be Latina, and most people don’t know I am.’ – Bella Thorne
‘I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece – the Kississia Colts – where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.’ – Greg Kinnear
‘My pictures of ‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘A Boy in Flanders’ are being used as school lessons.’ – Jackie Coogan
‘I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.’ – Nikolaas Tinbergen
‘I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.’ – Emmeline Pankhurst
‘The old school in me knows how to get over and get other guys over. I’m going to continue to do it.’ – Randy Orton
‘Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois
‘I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.’ – Maryam Mirzakhani
‘My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer’s school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, ‘Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.” – Martin Garrix
‘Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution – both literally and figuratively – and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.’ – Peter Guber
‘For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.’ – Bruce Springsteen
‘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
‘I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.’ – Adriana Lima
‘I remember ‘Def Comedy Jam’ being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, ‘I want to do that.” – Hannibal Buress
‘My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn’t have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.’ – Ryan Coogler
‘People ask me all the time, ‘What do you do for Cinco de Mayo?’ And my honest answer is always, ‘When I was growing up in Mexico, nothing. Really, nothing. It was a school day. It was totally normal.’ But when I grew up and started going to San Diego and started drinking margaritas, that’s when Cinco de Mayo celebrations started for me.’ – Marcela Valladolid
‘I was a kinesiology major in college, which is exercise science. Then, I was either going to get my Ph.D. or go to medical school, but I was kind of burned out after school.’ – Michelle Wolf
‘I go to school the youth to learn the future.’ – Robert Frost
‘I’m a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I’d read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.’ – George R. R. Martin
‘In elementary school, we all say, ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.’ In high school, we should say, ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.’ So that’s what I’m telling high schools all around the world.’ – Nick Vujicic
‘After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic.’ – Akira Toriyama
‘I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front ‘rough guide’. I thought: ‘Yeah’ she’s not a looker.’ – Jimmy Carr
‘My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.’ – Ben Barnes
‘To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. ‘Every Child Belongs in School’ provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path.’ – Ann Cotton
‘When I was studying at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, Sanjay Dutt came to our school as the chief guest on the Founder’s Day. He is an alumnus of the school.’ – Varun Sharma
‘To say that I loved school would be an understatement. It was my oasis, my sanctuary.’ – Janet Mock
‘I’m quite comfortable with being a geek. I’ve been a geek since high school.’ – James Marsters
‘I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it’s not that easy. Acting is what’s easy.’ – David Niven
‘As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.’ – J. B. Priestley
‘Being coachable and having a good time with your peers is what high school is all about.’ – T. J. Watt
‘We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in Tuskegee, Alabama. But they were told they failed the so-called literacy test.’ – John Lewis
‘My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.’ – Brian Kilmeade
‘I don’t love being an actor, but I’m not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.’ – Michael Madsen
‘At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.’ – V. S. Naipaul
‘Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then ‘Old School’ has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.’ – Elvis Mitchell
‘I remember playing hockey as a kid – I was goalie in gym class and I was pretty good at it. But basketball was my passion. As a kid I went to class, came back from school, did my homework and went straight across the street to practice.’ – Jamal Murray
‘I’m happy that I know how to speak ‘Southern.’ I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. ‘Y’all’ is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented.’ – W. Kamau Bell
‘I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.’ – J. Cole
‘My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.’ – Eric Stoltz
‘At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world – actor, producer, student – none of that matters. It’s a magical art form.’ – Eric Christian Olsen
‘My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear’s a bit bigger than my left – which showed up particularly in school photographs – so my mother used to call me her ‘little Picasso.” – Michael Portillo
‘I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.’ – Liz Truss
‘As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid’s grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.’ – Bill O’Reilly
‘School is not for me. I’m volatile and hate being told what to do.’ – Bray Wyatt
‘Don’t get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn’t want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.’ – Lil Uzi Vert
‘I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.’ – Robert Pattinson
‘Nothing could be as hard as middle school.’ – Zooey Deschanel
‘The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.’ – Jim Brown
‘From a fairly young age, Donald had a really hard time reading social cues. You know, the rules in the house, my grandparents’ house were very different from the rules in school. So, he had a difficult time adjusting to that.’ – Mary L. Trump
‘When I was about nine, I went to school with a toothbrush in my mouth. I saw Method Man do it in a video.’ – Michael Che
‘I remember turning onto the street. I saw barricades and police officers and, just, people everywhere. When I saw all of that, I immediately thought that it was Mardi Gras. I had no idea that they were here to keep me out of the school.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It’s not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.’ – Gina Prince-Bythewood
‘God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.’ – Mark Twain
‘I went to the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.’ – Katy Mixon
‘I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents’ hard work that most people don’t have.’ – Anthony Mackie
‘I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, ‘Concerning the Nature of Things.” – Dorothy Hodgkin
‘I started in high school, and in college, I studied radio, TV, and film. The plan was to be a filmmaker, and it was always comedy.’ – Seth Meyers
‘If you’re entering your first year of higher education, then you also need to prepare for an extreme lifestyle change. Your mom’s not there to wake you up for school.’ – Sean Evans
‘There’s this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It’s a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.’ – Daniela Ruah
‘Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.’ – Karl Malone
‘There was a time when I was studying in school when one of my coaches clearly told me I shouldn’t be bowling at selection trials. We had a couple of off spinners from our own school and he said that if I bowled off spin, their chances would get affected. So, I didn’t really bowl at the trials till I was in my late teens.’ – Ravichandran Ashwin
‘I couldn’t see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn’t like school if I’m being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.’ – Cheryl Cole
‘I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.’ – Bjarke Ingels
‘Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I’d try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.’ – James Earl Jones
‘I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.’ – Harvey Korman
‘I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I’d have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.’ – Lucy Griffiths
‘Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!’ – Patty Murray
‘Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don’t seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn’t have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.’ – Howard Gardner
‘I was quite naughty at school.’ – Gemma Arterton
‘I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress, and thus, even though I got 92% in my board exams, I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation.’ – Kiara Advani
‘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
‘We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.’ – Andy Williams
‘No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace.’ – Robert Fogel
‘When I was 23, 24, I started covering hedge funds – a lot of this was luck – when no one else did. This was before hedge funds were the prettiest girl in school: this was pre-nose job and treadmill for hedge funds, when nobody talked to them – back then, it was just all about insurance companies and money managers.’ – Stephanie Ruhle
‘I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.’ – Jackie Chan
‘High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.’ – John Calipari
‘The philosophy of the school was quite simple – the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.’ – Aaron Klug
‘When I got to law school, I didn’t do very well. To put it mildly, I didn’t do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.’ – Daniel H. Pink
‘I don’t wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that ’90s school of rap. Fitted caps, because I got a big head, so snapbacks don’t fit me right.’ – Meek Mill
‘When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I’d barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.’ – Chris Kirkpatrick
‘I was happy when I got into film school. I’d simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in – nothing else – although I do believe they shouldn’t have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can’t understand why they took me. Probably because I’d tried three times.’ – Krzysztof Kieslowski
‘I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.’ – Stephen King
‘When Photoshop came around, I thought I’d died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, ‘Oh, the good old days’ or ‘I’m old school,’ I just want to puke. There’s no tool I won’t use.’ – Marilyn Minter
‘When I was like 10 or 11, I lived in Switzerland for a bit. It was beautiful. All my cousins and stuff lived there, so every winter and summer, we would go spend it with them, but it was pretty different. I went to a boarding school, so I got to meet people from all different ethnicities, it was cool.’ – Rubi Rose
‘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
‘I left school at sixteen – I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn’t have Latin, and so couldn’t go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.’ – Harold Pinter
‘I think there’s so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It’s not contextualized.’ – Esperanza Spalding
‘I had a really hot girlfriend in high school and I’d get into fights over that. And by the time I got into high school, I was moved around into a lot of schools, so I was getting into fights in high school.’ – Nick Diaz
‘Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.’ – Robert Bresson
‘I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn’t know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school – then again, I was like, ‘Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.” – King Krule
‘My heroes always are mostly my parents – my father especially, and my mom, who’s passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.’ – Dikembe Mutombo
‘When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that’s why I’m so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.’ – Tim Scott
‘Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.’ – Quentin Tarantino
‘I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
‘In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It’s on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.’ – Nick Kroll
‘When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.’ – Eileen Pollack
‘I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.’ – Diana Ross
‘School was not a good experience. I would get bullied. It was really hard for me to get along with people who didn’t have the same goals, so I just wanted to get to California.’ – Ava Max
‘Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that’s not the case.’ – Jean Chatzky
‘That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.’ – Garth Brooks
‘Each of our children during their high school years went to ‘early morning seminary’ – scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.’ – Clayton M. Christensen
‘My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.’ – Lauren Graham
‘But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.’ – Sally Ride
‘Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It just killed me.’ – Stacy Keibler
‘High School is like a spork: it’s a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless.’ – John Mayer
‘There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.’ – Karan Singh Grover
‘I was 11 and living in Kosovo. I knew I wanted to perform but didn’t feel like I could do it there. So I moved back to London on my own at 15, carried on going to school, and started posting cover songs online. I had no idea how I was going to become a performer, but I felt like I had so many more opportunities being in London.’ – Dua Lipa
‘Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father’s a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.’ – Mikhail Varshavski
‘I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland – I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.’ – Norman Wisdom
‘I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.’ – Robin Williams
‘I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn’t do well in school but had a great time exploring Beijing from the inside out.’ – Chloe Zhao
‘My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.’ – Erin Wasson
‘I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I’d gone to school with was sick – one of the first people I knew who’d gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called ‘Angels in America.’ I’ve never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.’ – Tony Kushner
‘School is at once a place of hope, but it’s also a laboratory that exposes our differences.’ – Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
‘I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary – a good combination for a teacher.’ – Stephen Mangan
‘I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.’ – Chris Carmack
‘Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn’t tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard
‘I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.’ – Phylicia Rashad
‘Whenever I wasn’t in school with a tutor three hours a day, I’d get a knock and be rushed to set and they’d be waiting and I’d film my thing and then I’d go back to school again.’ – Neil Patrick Harris
‘My dad was a high school coach for 30-plus years in North Carolina, and he was inducted into the North Carolina High School Coaches Hall of Fame. He’s the best coach I’ve known, in every way, all the way around – relationships, motivation, going the extra mile, always putting his kids first and foremost.’ – Kelvin Sampson
‘I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.’ – Kali Uchis
‘A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they’re going to have to – high school’s hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?’ – Kristin Chenoweth
‘Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education – for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.’ – Bil Keane
‘My mother worked in a school canteen – then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.’ – Ian Rankin
‘I was probably the only kid in school that had long hair.’ – Sam Fender
‘I cut school to read Shakespeare and to learn about that because, for the first time, I felt like I really discovered a passion – the passion of my life.’ – Jessica Chastain
‘I was never the pretty girl at school. I’m tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.’ – FKA twigs
‘I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.’ – Cobie Smulders
‘Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can’t go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can’t get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.’ – Katherine Paterson
‘I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.’ – Lando Norris
‘If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.’ – Mike Davidson
‘I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I’d become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I’m glad I didn’t go. That might have changed.’ – Russell Tovey
‘When I get into trouble at school I’d like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I’d like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.’ – Daniel Radcliffe
‘Protect yourself at all times. It’s what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I’m not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.’ – Bernard Hopkins
‘In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn’t like that at all. And he told her one time, ‘You shouldn’t go on the rez if you’re white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.” – Sherman Alexie
‘When I was at school, I got into trouble quite often.’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell
‘I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.’ – Amy Adams
‘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
‘One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.’ – Angela Duckworth
‘Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I’ve seen more constructive debates in high school.’ – Paolo Nutini
‘I don’t know nothing about the restaurant business, but I’ve been around a barber shop all my life. That’s where I used to get my dates in high school.’ – Larry Johnson
‘I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding – I did well in a few national contests.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.’ – Kristen Wiig
‘I like this job – most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read ’em a bedtime story. It’s almost like a normal life.’ – Mark Harmon
‘When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.’ – Lisa Randall
‘I went to the Professional Children’s School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually figured out what I wanted to do, and it gave me the opportunity to travel.’ – Margaret Qualley
‘There’s a lot of guys out there that can play at this level, and sometimes they might be discouraged because they come from a small school or a tough situation.’ – Adam Thielen
‘I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn’t want to do that. I didn’t want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.’ – Talulah Riley
‘Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.’ – Mitch Daniels
‘Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.’ – Alfred Molina
‘I’m not someone who went to acting school – I was just out of the gate, doing it.’ – Natasha Lyonne
‘When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I often escaped through the back fence to walk the four miles to my father’s office in Windsor. I only lasted a few terms, but it didn’t curb my ambition.’ – Peter Jones
‘Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.’ – Tracy McGrady
‘I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the age of 22.’ – David Starkey
‘I think family mealtime is really important. There’s a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.’ – Jewel
‘Do I think it’s OK to fight authority as long as you’re only talking about the high school teacher? No.’ – John Mellencamp
‘I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong’s home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.’ – Jimmy Scott
‘My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.’ – Lindsey Shaw
‘I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.’ – Lana Del Rey
‘I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‘hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‘hood.’ – Beyonce Knowles
‘The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?’ – Muhammad Ali
‘I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don’t have is particularly absurd because it’s not theirs. It’s their parents’. So to feel quite good about yourself because you’ve got the fancy house and car doesn’t make any sense – you didn’t earn any of that.’ – Greta Gerwig
‘On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, ‘I hope you all like where you’re sitting, because these are your permanent seats.” – Jeff Kinney
‘I’m born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I’m able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It’s cool because I get to turn it on and off.’ – Eiza Gonzalez
‘In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.’ – William Glasser
‘My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.’ – Will Smith
‘My grandmother was a very simple woman. She didn’t want a whole lot. My grandmother wanted to go to church and Sunday school every Sunday. She wanted to be in Bible study every Wednesday. The other days, she wanted to be on a fishing creek.’ – Shannon Sharpe
‘I want my kids to be able to live comfortable and go to school and to be into sports.’ – Lil Durk
‘Increased physical activity during the school day can help children’s attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.’ – Darell Hammond
‘I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.’ – Amy Winehouse
‘In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy – on prom night!’ – Matthew Perry
‘I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.’ – Jimmy Carter
‘The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.’ – Maria Montessori
‘If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.’ – Ariana Grande
‘I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I’d ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there’s a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.’ – Emma Watson
‘Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.’ – Abe Lemons
‘In high school, I couldn’t do one pushup.’ – Nikola Jokic
‘I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, ‘It’d be cool to do this as a form of comedy.” – Andy Samberg
‘I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that’s sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.’ – Alice Waters
‘I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.’ – Francis Ford Coppola
‘The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason – these are very important.’ – Terence Tao
‘I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, ‘How many of you love mathematics?’ and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher! – Shakuntala Devi’ – Shakuntala Devi
‘I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‘Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.” – Taylor Swift
‘Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.’ – Greta Thunburg
‘I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‘Einstein.” – Stephen Hawking
‘People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.’ – Ben Affleck
‘Stanford’s law school application wasn’t the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren’t a loser.’ – J. D. Vance
‘I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.’ – Jane Goodall
‘Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry – not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.’ – Tom Colicchio
‘I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I’m sure that’s some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there’s a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.’ – Steve Martin
‘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
‘My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.’ – Young Thug
‘When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.’ – Sylvester Stallone
‘My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me because I couldn’t concentrate. I was failing almost every subject. To this day, I’m not too good at reading a book. But I was the president of my high school comedy group, and they treated me like a king.’ – Don Rickles
‘I’m totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I’m so happy she really cares about her female fans. She’s not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.’ – Kathleen Hanna
‘Some of the Tories say, ‘She left school at 16, she doesn’t have a university degree, what does she know about education?’ I say, I may not have a degree – but I have a Masters in real life.’ – Angela Rayner
‘I spent grade nine and ten going to school in Victoria. My parents lived there for 10 years.’ – Sophie Hawley-Weld
‘Now we’re here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one’s going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We’ll see what happens.’ – Dana Carvey
‘I never went to a modeling school, and I don’t suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school… In fashion, one day you’re in, the next you’re out.’ – Heidi Klum
‘In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn’t have any, they gave you some.’ – Emo Philips
‘I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.’ – Natalie Portman
‘I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.’ – Karl Lagerfeld
‘Even in high school, I’d tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn’t too happy. She’d say, ‘Think about this.’ And I’d always end up getting back in the pool.’ – Michael Phelps
‘I did make National Honors Society in high school.’ – Rob Gronkowski
‘I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I’m used to.’ – SZA
‘On ‘Old School,’ I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on ‘Starsky and Hutch,’ I was more of an actor. I wasn’t Snoop Dogg, the rapper.’ – Snoop Dogg
‘I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, ‘Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.’ I thought, ‘Who cares? As long as they’re laughing.” – Chris Farley
‘I didn’t even walk for graduation – I did graduate, though. I got this homeschool deal. I didn’t have to go to school because I was depressed, and my mom wrote all these essays for me. I didn’t write one of them. She literally got me my diploma.’ – Lil Peep
‘The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
‘This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.’ – Adam Sandler
‘Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.’ – Abraham Maslow
‘I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.’ – Steven Chu
‘At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
‘I will get my education – if it is in home, school, or anyplace.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘I wasn’t bullied in high school, I was just ignored.’ – Gerard Way
‘Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.’ – Richard Branson
‘I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it’s completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.’ – Miranda Cosgrove
‘Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I’m still working out at my old high school.’ – LeBron James
‘Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not – because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.’ – Ken Robinson
‘I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?’ – Peter Tosh
‘I was called ‘Dumbo,’ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.’ – Anthony Hopkins
‘I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‘Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?’ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.’ – Michelle Obama
‘When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.’ – Ana de Armas
‘Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That’s what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep… Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.’ – B. B. King
‘I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.’ – Charlie Puth
‘My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn’t feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone’s table.’ – Camille Guaty
‘I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I’m very touched by kids who don’t have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.’ – Mary Ellen Mark
‘I don’t particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box – simplify it.’ – James Dyson
‘As for middle school, I had a really horrible era of style. I’d only play basketball with the boys during lunch, so I went through a phase of only wearing Lakers uniforms to school – that was cute! And then I kind of went through the Puma phase that everyone went through with the sweatsuits, which turned into Juicy Couture sweatsuits.’ – Gigi Hadid
‘My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.’ – Kendrick Lamar
‘I went to DePaul University Theatre School in Chicago, Illinois.’ – Joe Keery
‘I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it’s when people say, ‘You know, your girls are great.’ That’s the real thing for me.’ – Billy Crystal
‘I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.’ – Stephen King
‘I was in an a cappella group in high school.’ – Rebel Wilson
‘I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.’ – Dolly Parton
‘I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.’ – George Lucas
‘I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I’d like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!’ – Bella Thorne
‘If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades – one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
‘I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine – a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn’t practice.’ – Chris Cornell
‘I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.’ – Billie Joe Armstrong
‘I went to a high school that didn’t have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.’ – Matthew Perry
‘I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.’ – Steven Wright
‘From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They’re the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.’ – Zoe Kravitz
‘I think I’ve always wanted to direct, but I didn’t go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I think those became my film school in terms of acting and watching directors work and also writing and co-writing and producing.’ – Greta Gerwig
‘I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.’ – Will Smith
‘You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.’ – William Glasser
‘We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school’s curriculum.’ – Alice Waters
‘School houses do not teach themselves – piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois
‘Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.’ – Eminem
‘My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.’ – Juice Wrld
‘I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.’ – Emma Watson
‘When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil rights movement, you know, is to ban the assault weapons so that our babies can be safe.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.’ – Flea
‘I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
‘I think who you are in school really sticks with you.’ – Taylor Swift
‘Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense.’ – Michelle Obama
‘I’m just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I’d never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn’t be working.’ – Matthew Perry
‘Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn’t matter to us what we looked like.’ – Ruby Bridges