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School Quotes


"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."


"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."


"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type."


"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."


"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."



"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."


"I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas."


"I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school."


"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"


"I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks."


"I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins."


"In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe."


"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."


"I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it."


"I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that."


"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."


"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."


"I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill."


"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."



"In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do."


"I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it."


"You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit."


"I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating."


"I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle."


"Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years."


"I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again."


"I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side."


"As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool."


"Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person."


"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."


"In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three."


"You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together."


"I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly."


"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."


"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."


"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."


"When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China."


"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."


"I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it."


"We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances."


"There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate."
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