school quotes

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.”

“I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.”

“All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.”

“I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.”

“I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.”

— Charles Stanley

“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”

“You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.”

— Virginia Woolf

“My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.”

— Woody Allen

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

— Victor Hugo

“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.”

“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. ”

“I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“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 got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.”

— Christina Aguilera

“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. ”

“I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“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

“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

“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”

— Warren Buffett

“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”

— Mick Jagger

“I didn't love school.”

— Kim Kardashian

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