Logo - Feel The Words

School Quotes

On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.

These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.

I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never...

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

In private school, I definitely judged myself against the lighter-skinned girls. I wanted to have different hair. I wanted to fit in. I thought that was more beautiful.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

I went to a school where the girls that were found attractive were the complete opposite to me. I judged my worth on how many boyfriends everyone had, and I wanted to jump out of my skin every second of...

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

College Quotes

I always think, what I would have thought of something like Gurls Talk would have come into my school? Or how would I have felt if I'd heard there was this one-day festival happening in London? I think I'd have...

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

I had a hard time in high school.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

I was privileged in terms of where I grew up, and I come from a very loving, supportive household. But when I began to go off the rails at boarding school, my behaviour wasn't a result of an upbringing but...

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn't very interested in modeling at that point.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

Dost Quotes

I think, overall, there is a lack of diversity in the arts. I'm thinking about when I was in grad school: I could probably count on one hand the number of minority students in the graduate school program.

Quotes by Adrienne C. Moore

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

Quotes by Adriane Lenox

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

Quotes by Adrian Rogers

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

Quotes by Adrian Belew

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Quotes by Adrian Cronauer

Friendship Quotes

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

Quotes by Adora Svitak

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in...

Quotes by Adora Svitak

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

Quotes by Adora Svitak

You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.

Quotes by Adolfo Cambiaso

I want to finish high school, but that will be it.

Quotes by Adolfo Cambiaso

Friendship Day Quotes

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

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Frequently Asked Questions

What different kinds of school are reflected in these quotes?
The quotes touch on several types of schooling - being a "late bloomer" in regular high school, attending Sunday school and Bible readings at church starting in first grade, skipping film school entirely, and studying natural sciences at a Swiss Polytechnical School.
Is there a quote about religious or Sunday school?
Yes: "Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that." For more devotional, school-related content, see Prayers.
Is there a quote about not attending film school?
Yes: "I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected," a wry take on skipping formal film education entirely. For more lighthearted content on this theme, see Jokes.
Is there a quote about being a late bloomer in school?
Yes, one reflects on being a "late bloomer" even back in high school, watching everyone else move ahead while feeling behind - a pattern the speaker says also carried into a filmmaking career.
Is there anything here about advanced or scientific study?
Yes, one references studying toward a diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich, where early contact with fundamental research began. For lighter, more playful school-themed content, browse Rhymes or Poems.

You can also browse our Poems or Rhymes for younger, more playful school content.