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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.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

Quotes by Sarah Sutton

I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.

Quotes by Sarah Vaughan

The best job was when I was at drama school and I cleaned flats in the Barbican. I loved it. They were spotless anyway, so you'd just watch the telly and flick a duster around.

Quotes by Sarah Parish

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.

Quotes by Sarah Parish

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

Quotes by Sarah Polley

I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!

Quotes by Sarah Roemer

When I was in theater school, we did these relationship exercises - you would play my sister, and I'd give you all this information about my sister, and then we'd get up and perform this scene, and you'd pretend to...

Quotes by Sarah Goldberg

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Quotes by Sarah Hall

I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.

Quotes by Sarah Hay

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

Quotes by Sarah Hay

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

Quotes by Sarah Hyland

When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook.

Quotes by Sarah Jeong

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

Quotes by Sarah Jessica Parker

My performing inspiration all started at my performing-arts school back in Atlanta. That was the spark that made me want to perform.

Quotes by Sarah Charles Lewis

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

Quotes by Sarah Dessen

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

Quotes by Sarah Dessen

On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable.

Quotes by Sarah Dessen

I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened...

Quotes by Sarah Dessen

The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12.

Quotes by Sarah Gavron

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the arts there. I sang in choirs and did singing competitions. I also did a whole lot of theater; I did high school, and...

Quotes by Sarah Butler

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.