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School Quotes


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


"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."


"We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio."


"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."


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


"While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent."


"My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school."


"I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school."


"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."


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


"Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?"


"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."



"I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975."


"A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it."


"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."


"So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught."


"I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork."


"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."


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


"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school."


"I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much."


"Most every dental school has discount dental services."


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


"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."


"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."


"Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me."


"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."


"You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school."
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