school quotes

“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

“I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.”

— Kim Kardashian

“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

“Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.”

— Stephen King

“I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.”

— Stephen King

“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”

— Stanley Kubrick

“My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.”

— Paul McCartney

“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 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

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”

— Barack Obama

“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.”

— Horace Mann

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