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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.

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

Quotes by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

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

Quotes by Shemar Moore

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

Quotes by Shenae Grimes

I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector...

Quotes by Sheldon Lee Glashow

My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my...

Quotes by Shelley Conn

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

Quotes by Shelley Duvall

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

Quotes by Shelley Hennig

Being raised as an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Mormons, I became an Eagle scout, and after graduating high school, I went on a full-time church mission to the West Indies for...

Quotes by Shay Carl

When you live in the projects, everything you need is in a mile radius: a basketball court, an indoor gym, a school, a grocery store, a shopping center.

Quotes by Sheck Wes

I was super cool in school.

Quotes by Sheck Wes

When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I...

Quotes by Sheck Wes

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

Quotes by Sheena Easton

Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed...

Quotes by Sheena Iyengar

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of...

Quotes by Shawn Fanning

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Quotes by Shawn Ashmore

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.

Quotes by Shawn Ashmore

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

Quotes by Shawn Ashmore

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for...

Quotes by Sharon Stone

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped...

Quotes by Sharon Stone

I went to an all-girls' school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.

Quotes by Shantel VanSanten

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.